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Question regarding using the blood plasma of recovered people to treat sick people: When the plasma is injected, is it just the antibodies in the donated plasma that attacks the virus, or does the body detect the antibodies and create more ?

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Question re blood plasma treatment: When the treated patient receives the plasma, is it just the antibodies in the received plasma that attacks the virus or does the patient’s body start making more antibodies?

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The mass of the earth bends space and that bent space is gravity. If I could see that bend what would it look like? Exactly how ‘bent’ is space? When I throw a ball I can see it arc into the air and back down again, is that arc equivalent to the bend?

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Question regarding using the blood plasma of recovered people to treat sick people: When the plasma is injected, is it just the antibodies in the donated plasma that attacks the virus, or does the body detect the antibodies and create more ?	5060
Question re blood plasma treatment: When the treated patient receives the plasma, is it just the antibodies in the received plasma that attacks the virus or does the patient’s body start making more antibodies?	1
The mass of the earth bends space and that bent space is gravity. If I could see that bend what would it look like? Exactly how ‘bent’ is space? When I throw a ball I can see it arc into the air and back down again, is that arc equivalent to the bend?	1