It depends on how well treatment with that antibody works. It's best to also find more antibodies and a few vaccines just in case.

Try thinking outside the box for once and stop believing what was done yesterday has anything to do what what's going on now or the future.

Folding right now just announced they hit 1.5 exaFLOPS of computer processing, something unheard of in just the past few years ago. That's a bunch of power that can be spliced into any number of research arms.

Add to this a couple of common sense directives:

(1) Congress should instruct the FDA to publish vaccine trial data in real time

(2) Congress should extend liability protections to COVID-19 vaccine candidate manufacturers

(3) Create the mechanism by which patients can opt to forgo the protections of vaccine approval based on informed consent.

Streamline the process. FDA and NIH are acknowledging there's a ton needed for improvement. No risk no return with many many willing participants. The candle industry had its turn, time for modern medicine and technology to take over.

@voidcomp
I respect your opinion, nevertheless I don't share it.
Public healthcare is not "just thinking out of the box". The human body is complex, pharmacocinetics is complex, we do not have much experience and data with SARS-CoV-2.
Even if the situation is an emergency case, all of us - in particular scientists - need to remain careful and to work very accurately.
Look what happened with the dengue vaccine: good intention very bad outcome depending of the patient previous disease.
It is not because something seems to work, that it shall be used everywhere for everybody without thinking.
On my side - and I live in currently the worst impacted area (beside Italy and Spain) between France and Switzerland - I would like to understand the mechanisms of this pandemy. Beside looking for cures, it is important as well to understand as quick as possible how this disease really work. If we understand better how it works, we will be able to cure it better and smoother.
The question is really not to "think out of the box" but to do really good scientific work in order to avoid to make the current situation worst as it already is.
Quick and dirty come never good out at the story end.
Cheers,
Yves

Not yet. At the moment, 27,000 people have died. That is a relatively small number for a major disease. It gets worse depending on how fast it spreads, and how well it is controlled (or isn't). That isn't just a question of crunching numbers on a PC, but social control and commitment. And how much economic hardship are you willing to forego to save so many lives? Even the weather will play a role.

Many of the cases are relatively mild; look at Boris Johnson and Prince Charles, just to name some obvious notables. Once a significant proportion of the population has been exposed, then a degree of herd immunity will set in and the new infection rate decrease. We don't know when that will happen. Intelligent management is probably more effective in the short run than any vaccine or treatment we will get soon. More testing and face masks and gloves will do more good than more PC projects in the short term.

Except in 1919 when it killed millions more.

BTW, victims buried in permafrost still harbor viable virus.