Good News for Immunocompromised

[whmk]

healio.com/news/infectious-...

[DancinGal]

Indeed this is good news for us immunocompromised folks.

[SlowCLL]

Excerpt from the company's press release worth repeating.“Experts estimate that approximately 3% of the U.S. population may not respond fully to COVID-19 vaccination because of immunocompromising conditions or immunosuppressive medicines. This includes people receiving chemotherapy, people with hematologic cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, people receiving stem cells or hemodialysis, people who have received organ transplants, and/or people taking certain medications that might blunt immune response (e.g., mycophenolate, rituximab, azathioprine, anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies, Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors). This authorization enables these groups to use REGEN-COV to prevent infection in post-exposure and certain institutional settings.”

[Youngen]

This is great news. Thanks for sharing! Wonder if they will eventually give this as a preventative measure!

[bennevisplace]

A step forward, but "we continue to work with the FDA as it undertakes its review of REGEN-COV in a broader group of people including in a pre-exposure prophylactic setting for people who are immunocompromised".