People previously infected with coronavirus may only need one dose of the vaccine, a new study suggests. Researchers found that participants who had contracted COVID-19 in the past and received one shot had antibody levels similar to – and even higher than – those who had never been infected and were given two doses. Additionally, … Read more
An experimental coronavirus drug which is now being trialled on the NHS has been found to cause a 100 per cent reduction in symptomatic infections and also reduce overall infection rates. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday that its two-antibody cocktail REGEN-COV prevented 100 per cent of the 186 people who got the drug after being … Read more
A new antibody treatment with the potential to give people instant immunity after being exposed to Covid-19 and prevent illness is being trialled by British scientists in the UK. The drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine, potentially saving thousands of lives. It … Read more
A new antibody treatment with the potential to give people instant immunity after being exposed to Covid-19 and prevent illness is being trialled by British scientists in the UK. The drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine, potentially saving thousands of lives. It … Read more
The majority of doses of coronavirus antibody drugs are going unused, a new report claims. According to CNBC, Operation Warp Speed ships out some 65,000 doses of the drugs across the U.S. each week. But, chief of the vaccine initiative Dr Moncef Slaoui said only five to 20 percent of treatments – made by Eli … Read more
Public health officials have looked to random antibody testing to gauge what percentage of various populations have been infected with coronavirus. But these figures are likely an underestimate, the findings of a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests. Among more than 150 health care workers who had tested positive for coronavirus, … Read more
FDA gives emergency approval a new test that can measure a patient’s levels of antibodies thought to ‘neutralize’ coronavirus in the hopes of discovering how much is enough to prevent reinfection The FDA has authorized one of the first tests that measure the level of coronavirus neutralizing antibodies produced by the immune system Unlike binding … Read more
Trials for AstraZeneca’s new ‘antibody cocktail’ treatment will begin in the UK – and it could prevent Covid-19 from developing for up to a year. A participant in Manchester will be the first in the world to receive the pharmaceutical company’s new ‘antibody cocktail’ as part of the trial to test its effectiveness. The clinical … Read more
A rapid Covid-19 antibody test bought by the Government may wrongly tell one in five people they have had the coronavirus. Number 10 placed an order for one million AbC-19 tests made by UK-based company Abingdon Health in October to be used for research purposes, in order to paint a better picture of how far … Read more
Two doctors are expressing their concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to quickly roll out coronavirus antibody treatments. In an editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, the physicians, from Harvard University, discussed REGN-COV2, the cocktail President Donald Trump received while he was ill. They say many questions about the … Read more