29 DECEMBER 2020
Scientists in the UK have just recruited the first participants in the world to be part of a new long-acting antibody study.
If the treatment is effective, it could give those who have already been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 protection from developing COVID-19.
So we hope to find that giving this treatment via injection can lead to immediate protection against the development of COVID-19 in people who have been exposed – when it would be too late to offer a vaccine.
This might not be the first antibody treatment for COVID-19 you ve heard of. Outgoing US President Donald Trump was given monoclonal antibodies when he came down with the disease, and in the US two different antibody treatments - casirivimab and imdevimab – received emergency approval back in November.
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