“ The key is getting the mAb before the bug trashes your lungs and then you have a multi month recovery”
I agree with most of your comments - except two.
Saves lives. 99.7% do not die from covid.
Trashes lungs. The first version of Omicron does not attack the lungs but the upper respiratory. I suspect the same is true for the sub variants.
It is great to have another treatment. Over the next few months I fully expect the supply of treatments will increase substantially.
This is what our screwed up government should have focused on instead of the dangerous and useless vaccines.
I have a close friend that would disagree he got omicron and still struggles to walk up stairs it left all manner of damages to his lungs clearly seen in xrays. While most will present upper respiratory symptoms some people will still progress to lung infections from sars covid II and those people if it progresses too viral pneumonia can and do have lasting damages. There is no way of knowing which group of people a person will be in until they catch the bug. Even if 99.7% survive .3% didn’t have a sniffle and head cold they got it much worse obviously. The point is having a fast acting antibody treatment on tap to help those people who cannot make antibodies themselves such as cancer patients or HIV infection. Or they didn’t make then fast enough to keep the viral replication rate below what their immune system can naturally beat on it’s own. Having the huge influx of killer antibodies to stop the replication and allow the bodies T and B cells to rid the rest of the viri.