{"id":106655,"date":"2020-05-06T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T02:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-say-llama-antibodies-could-be-key-to-defeating-covid"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T02:44:26","slug":"scientists-say-llama-antibodies-could-be-key-to-defeating-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-say-llama-antibodies-could-be-key-to-defeating-covid","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Llama Antibodies Could Be Key to Defeating COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-llama-antibodies-could-be-key-to-defeating-covid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines have to be given a month or two before infection to provide protection,\u201d McLellan said in the statement. \u201cWith antibody therapies, you\u2019re directly giving somebody the protective antibodies and so, immediately after treatment, they should be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe antibodies could also be used to treat somebody who is already sick to lessen the severity of the disease,\u201d McLellan added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still a lot of work to do to try to bring this into the clinic,\u201d Xavier Saelens, a molecular virologist at Ghent University in Belgium and co-author, told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cIf it works, llama Winter deserves a statue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVaccines have to be given a month or two before infection to provide protection,\u201d McLellan said in the statement. \u201cWith antibody therapies, you\u2019re directly giving somebody the protective antibodies and so, immediately after treatment, they should be protected.\u201d \u201cThe antibodies could also be used to treat somebody who is already sick to lessen the severity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}