bkp_duke
Well-Known Member
Just a general comment that I think there are 2 main "lines of attack" we have that are most effective at stopping this from harming people:
#1: (obviously) the various vaccines
#2: Monoclonal antibody treatments EARLY in the course when symptoms are first detected.
If #2 were widely available, I wouldn't even be worrying so much and think of this as a more minor illness. The problem is their availability and when you get approved to get them. From what I can tell, they are highly effective at stopping symptoms. But (unless you are some high profile official), I think the only way to get them is through randomized trials, so you might end up with placebo which isn't a good place to be.
Is there any news on more widespread availability? And ability to get them prescribed without being in a randomized trial?
I assume it will always be only in a hospital settings, so no chance of some monoclonal antibody "home cure" ever coming?
All the other drugs... Remdesivir, etc, are really just about reducing the most severe symptoms. Monoclonal antibodies are more like an antidote/cure from what I can tell.
#2 is GOD AWEFUL expensive, due to the difficulty of manufacture, will never be a widespread therapy.