Why can't they just tell us one thing? Why do they keep changing their
minds? What's wrong with them? Jeepers!
Two COVID-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World
Health Organization (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant's
latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete.
The two therapies - which are designed to work by binding to the spike
protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralise the virus' ability to infect cells -
were some of the first medicines developed early in the pandemic.
The virus has since evolved, and mounting evidence from lab tests
suggests the two therapies - sotrovimab as well as casirivimab-imdevimab
- have limited clinical activity against the latest iterations of the
virus. As a result, they have also fallen out of favour with the U.S.
health regulator.
On Thursday, WHO experts said they strongly advised against the use of
the two therapies in patients with COVID-19, reversing previous
conditional recommendations endorsing them, as part of a suite of recommendations published
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3379 in
the British Medical Journal.
GSK and partner Vir Biotechnology's sotrovimab - which has generated
billions in sales and became one of the British drugmaker's top sellers
last year - was pulled off the U.S. market by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April.
https://news.yahoo.com/strongly-advises-against-two-covid-220709913.html
Damn! Why can't we move on? Why do they keep talking about it? If they'd
just quit studying the virus maybe it would just go away - like the
orange goon! HawHawHaw!
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