Another topic that we should all already know about

[hhk50]

This popped up on today's CNN website. Hopefully we all already know about monoclonal antibody infusions but I thought that I would post this - just in case.

One reminder that came from it is to pre-plan what you will do in case you test positive for Covid. Check with your specialist on their protocol for handling the monoclonal antibody treatments.

cnn.com/2021/10/25/health/c...

[lankisterguy Volunteer]

If anyone would like a useful set of check sheets to help with pre-planning for a COVID-19 exposure or infection, the CLL Society has these:

cllsociety.org/2021/07/covi...

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Len

COVID-19 Check lists by CLL Society

[81ue]

That's really depressing when doctors in California say they didn't know. I'm in California so as long as I'm conscious, the doctors I talk to will know about monoclonal antibodies as early treatment .

[Indolent]

It appears that some of the emerging Covid therapeutics are available in pill form. Hopefully, this will make them more readily available.

[bennevisplace]

Although I am familiar with them, this was an informative read. Monoclonal antibodies under-appreciated and under-utilised, and that's in a country with a choice of three products given Emergency Use Authorisation.

Here in the UK we have only one mAb to treat Covid and that's Ronapreve, officially in short supply. I have been wondering how clued-up the average provincial hospital is about its use and today my worst fears were realised.

I had a telephone consultation with my haematologist and asked a few pertinent questions.

Does the hospital have a protocol for treating Covid in blood cancer/ immunosuppressed patients?"No, if there was I would probably have written it".

Does the hospital have Ronapreve? "I don't know".

Do I still have hypogammaglobulinaemia? "Based on your lymphocyte count (0.7) yes definitely. We'll measure them in 4 months' time [one year since the last time]".

With apologies to hard-working medics, sometimes I think the practice of medicine takes place in a parallel universe.