Posted on 12/26/2020 12:39:27 PM PST by hapnHal
UK trials new antibody therapy that can stop people who have been exposed to COVID becoming ill and it could save MILLIONS of lives across the globe
Drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine
It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus
Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug In the U.S. there have been more than 18.7 million Americans infected with coronavirus and 330,246 deaths
People who live with someone has caught COVID or been exposed to them could be injected with the drug to stop them becoming infected, even if they have not had a coronavirus vaccine.
In the first trial, the antibody, known as AZD7442, has been developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which has also created a vaccine with Oxford University that is awaiting approval for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
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if anyone has Covid right now
i saw on goodrx that
One Medical is offering free tests and free virtual care right now.
if anyone does this please report back. i am interested to know what they prescribe to combat Covid
COVID-19 Long-Acting AntiBody (LAAB) combination AZD7442 rapidly advances into Phase III clinical trials
9 October 2020
AstraZeneca’s long-acting antibody (LAAB) combination, AZD7442, will advance into two Phase III clinical trials in more than 6,000 participants at sites in and outside the US that are due to begin in the next weeks. The LAABs have been engineered with AstraZeneca’s proprietary half-life extension technology to increase the durability of the therapy for six to 12 months following a single administration. The combination of two LAABs is also designed to reduce the risk of resistance developed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The Company has received support of around $486 million from the US Government for the development and supply of AZD7442 under an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense.
One trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of AZD7442 to prevent infection for up to 12 months, in approximately 5,000 participants. The second trial will evaluate post-exposure prophylaxis and pre-emptive treatment in approximately 1,100 participants.
AstraZeneca is planning additional trials to evaluate AZD7442 in approximately 4,000 patients for the treatment of COVID-19.
AstraZeneca plans to supply up to 100,000 doses starting towards the end of 2020 and the US Government can acquire up to an additional one million doses in 2021 under a separate agreement.
Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, said: “This agreement with the US Government will help accelerate the development of our long-acting antibody combination which has the potential to provide immediate and long-lasting effect in both preventing and treating COVID-19 infections. We will be evaluating the LAAB combination in different settings from prophylaxis, to outpatient treatment to hospitalisation, with a focus on helping the most vulnerable people.”
LAABs mimic natural antibodies and have the potential to treat and prevent disease progression in patients already infected with the virus, as well as to be given as a preventative intervention prior to exposure to the virus. A LAAB combination could be complementary to vaccines as a prophylactic agent, e.g. for people for whom a vaccine may not be appropriate or to provide added protection for high-risk populations. It could also be used to treat people who have been infected.
Unless they have changed their mind again, the AMA defeated the resolution that would allow HCQ to be used for Covid. See this link and the subsequent update:
The article says “the antibody, known as AZD7442, has been developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.”
Seems specific enough to me. You can search for AZD7442 and find more information.
Total con
Lowest dosage of zinc I have found is 50mg and it makes me sick. Any tips?
Nothing at all about the antibody properties of the medicine or how it supposedly works. That missing information makes the news a giant “you figure it out” puzzle and not worth the published space it consumes.
check out some multivitamins, they may have lower doses
otherwise if you’re eating beef/meats you’re probably getting what you need
check this page out for reference as well
https://www.healthline.com/health/zinc-deficiency#emergency-symptoms
“what’s the difference between vaccines and the other treatments?”
Well, for one thing, the mRNA vaccines are designed to teach your immune system to produce an immune response to covid antigens in perpetuity, not a one-time blitz...unclear how long new RNA programming actually will be effectual.
Ivermectin appears significantly more effective than HCQ. Similarly inexpensive, similarly safe.
demkicker wrote: “Yep - we’ve had the best drug all along - HCQ!!!!!!! And just to prove the point, the AMA QUIETLY announced right AFTER the vaccine announcement that they reversed their decision and will allow HCQ to be used for Covid.”
Unless you can prove otherwise that is fake new. There was a proposal before the AMA that did what you said, but that proposal was not passed, it wasn’t even voted on.
“UK trials new antibody therapy that can stop people who have been exposed to COVID becoming ill and it could save MILLIONS of lives across the globe”
I predict that, very shortly, there will be numerous posts that this product was developed using aborted babies, causes infertility in both women and men, and those who received the product suffered numerous side-effects such as headaches, sore arms, and sundry other issues.
Cheap and readily available.
Quite safe.
+1
Most never heard of it...
My brother and SIL have Covid and both have comorbidities up the ying yang. They had some medical care at the beginning but no HCQ, no Zpac, no vitamin protocol and are now on their own. My brother is doing better than his wife but he has Asbestosis and is on Symbicort and oxygen. His wife is horrible , her oxygen dropped to 68 so he gave her his oxygen and called an ambulance and by the time they got there her oxygen was up and they said she wasn’t sick enough to go to the hospital.
If they weren’t 2000 miles away I would go care for them. I told my niece that about the only thing that will help her now is a Zpac and Ivermectin and a few doses of my brother’s Trilogy. I don’t like playing doctor but the doctors don’t seem to like it either.
I sent them a Zpac and paid 95 bucks to have it delivered by 8 AM Monday and when I took it to the only FedEx that was open they said it wouldn’t be picked up until Monday morning so I did a 100 mile round trip 2 this afternoon.
The Gist of it is, if the damn doctors would be proactive, many fewer people would be dying.
They make lozenges. Also make sure you eat a little something.
Check your pm mail
HCQ Bump
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