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6. That would be an antiparasitic medicine, whereas this is antibody-rich serum
Tue May 11, 2021, 05:27 AM
May 2021

Horses, you see, produce massive amounts of antibodies when exposed to Covid or other viruses.

Because equine serum has been used to treat other viruses, it's been seen as promising against Covid from early on in this crisis.

Argentina, that I know of, is the only country in which clinical trials were actually carried out on it.

(we have the more effective Regeneron - but as Trump could tell you, it's available only to an elite few)

EClinicalMedicine - published by The Lancet - corroborated the positive results seen in the Argentine clinical trials from last August-October, in an April article.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021001231

And this report from Inmunova, on large-scale patient responses, appears to further corroborate it.

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