A new antibody treatment has been approved to help prevent COVID-19, and it will be available in a matter of days for many of the estimated 3 in every 100 people in the U.S. who have compromised immune systems.
March 26, 2024 – The FDA has approved a new antibody treatment to help prevent COVID-19 in those who are most at risk from the virus., the agency explained that the new treatment can be used preventively for immunocompromised people ages 12 and older who aren’t currently infected with the virus that causes COVID and haven’t recently been exposed.
Called Pemgarda, the monoclonal antibody helps prevent the virus from attaching to human cells and is given through an IV. It cannot be given within 2 weeks of a person receiving a COVID vaccine. Pemgarda received an emergency use authorization from the FDA. In a letter to drugmaker Invivyd, the FDA requested more data from the ongoing phase III clinical trial studying the drug.
The study also showed that the highest risk for hospitalization, ICU admission, or death due to COVID was among people who had received solid organ transplants, have a disorder that weakens their immune system, have received stem cell treatments, or had blood cancer.
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