https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-covid-19-antibody-treatment/

“We need vaccines,” immunologist Jacob Glanville says. He knows about combating infections; the fast-talking, curly-haired former Pfizer staff scientist has spent years searching for a universal flu vaccine, and his San Francisco-based startup Distributed Bio spearheads a variety of vaccination projects. As one might expect, his team is working diligently to find biopharmaceutical tools to fight Covid-19, but here’s the twist: It’s opting out of the scientific community’s sprint to find a vaccine. Instead, Distributed Bio is part of a parallel coronavirus research scramble: the hunt for antibody treatments.

Along with a wide mix of research teams in laboratories across the world, Glanville is pursuing antibody treatments as a complementary tool to fight Covid-19. Unlike vaccines, antibody treatments don’t produce lasting protection against a disease. Instead, these treatments are meant to equip bodies with tools to immediately (albeit temporarily) fight off an infection, or prevent an imminent contagion.