Posted on 12/11/2021 2:10:07 AM PST by blueplum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Wednesday authorized a new COVID-19 antibody drug for people with serious health problems or allergies who can’t get adequate protection from vaccination.
Antibody drugs have been a standard treatment for treating COVID-19 infections for over a year. But the AstraZeneca antibody drug cleared by the Food and Drug Administration is different. It’s the first intended for long-term prevention against COVID-19 infection, rather than a short-term treatment.
People who could benefit from the antibody drug include cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and people taking immune-suppressing drugs....the required two antibody injections may be effective at preventing COVID-19 infections for six months....
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Does this moot the EUA for the vaccines???
If you’re asking whether an EUA negates an EUA, that would be a double negative
Sarcasm aside, point taken.
There is a lot of misdirection in the article. Regeneron is effective ateight months and counting, beating any vaccine out there https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211110/regeneron-says-8-month-covid-protection-from-antibody-drug.
None of the antibody treatments were available for “more than a year;” the eua’s were held back until long after the launch of the vaccines, though Trump got Regeneron in October 2020 and immediately started touting the “therapeutics that are coming.” The expense is minor compared to the benefit of cutting hospitalization by 80%. Even on a narrow cost per dose basis, Regeneron etc. are used only in persons who are ill and risk factor qualified ( age and BMI>25 would be the big ones) $1000/dose is not a lot more or less compared to $30/ shot on vaccines that will do recipients who are and will be in good health ( many already with naturally acquired immunity). Probably >80% and climbing as massive numbers of vaccines are now going to be wasted on children. So that if 30-40 people get the vaccine for every person who gets the infusion, the cost difference is neutralized. Then you get into the costs of enforcing the mandates, already huge and growing enormously, and I mean direct costs, not indirect , which are incalculable. And a huge advertising expense for the vaccine vs. 0.00 for the infusion thus far ( maybe they advertise it in FL, I haven’t been there). Sean Hannity is the only big media outlet that regularly mentions regeneron and other monoclonals ( when he pressed Rand Paul on it last night, Paul offered less than an informed answer). My jaw dropped when Tucker Carlson asked Alex Berenson about therapeutics and Berenson mentioned only “the coming Pfizer pill” and neglected or suppressed mentioning the infusions. All in all, if not a murderous plot, it has been a murderous outcome, that Fauci/Biden has offered so little support that most people, and I do ask them, have no idea of the infusions, and apparently many of their doctors are un-informed as well.
Ah. In my pre-coffee befogged state I mistook authorized for approved.
The 23 page fact sheet for health providers makes interesting reading.
LOL. I thought the same, but I’m even more dubious without my full dose (and boosters).
he AstraZeneca antibody drug cleared by the Food and Drug Administration has not gone through long term testing. In fact I don’t see anything indicating anything but some lab testing. paging Dr. Frankenstein.
Very well summarized and communicated. Thank you for that post.
Perhaps…as long as you take your booster of Evusheld every six months.
Evusheld site can’t be reached.
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