Season 1 · Episode 12
012 - Can Antibodies be Used to Treat or Prevent COVID-19?
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
March 17, 202015m 32s
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Show Notes
Is there potential for using antibodies generated by people who have recovered from COVID-19 to prevent infection and treat those who are sick? Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks to Arturo Casadevall, chair of Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, about a landmark 1934 case where antibodies helped stopped a measles outbreak.
More information: jhsph.edu/covid-19