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> Somebody, somewhere made a choice to push the vaccines and not the monoclonal antibodies.

Monoclonal antibodies have been investigated at the same time as vaccines. Companies could have offered low cost production at large scale, but they didn't. What makes you think monoclonal antibodies can be produced and sold for $5-20 per dose like the vaccine?

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The fact that the technology to produce monoclonal antibodies is older than the technology to produce mRNA vaccines.

There is probably less of a profit motive for monoclonal antibodies, since it is just a few doses.

Vaccines with continual boosters mandated by law and required for travel or normal business entrance are a perpetual goldmine. Basically the exact opposite of what Gilead did with the Hepatitis C cure.

The giant bigpharma companies have the lobbyists to influence legislators & government executives, as well as controlling the social media "fact checkers" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44B-OJcOXxc

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