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The practicalities of actually being able to identify who might benefit from this and treat them, within the first few days of infection, would be incredibly resource intensive and hit and miss - very unlikely to get approved in the UK, and the evidence published so far for it is actually pretty weak when you dig in to it unfortunately.
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Oliver Schick
Great news, my 88 year old nan has hers on thursday, she cant wait (neither can we)
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The results of the cocktail touted by Trump seem promising and it seems to provide 100% protection against symptomatic covid, 50% lower rates of infection and reduced viral loads.
Passive vaccination only tends to give protection for weeks, and thus is only suggested for people at high risk of being infected.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/regeneron-reports-positive-interim-data-with-regen-cov-antibody-cocktail-used-as-passive-vaccine-to-prevent-covid-19-301214619.html