Evusheld is Out

Well, I was hoping that I would get another dose of the Evusheld antibodies before summer, especially because I thought any next dose might protect against Omicron and all the variants after. 

Nope. Looks like they're just giving up. Those new variants account for over 90% of new cases now, so Evusheld is off the market. 

The CDC shrugs their shoulders, and urges people to get tested if they’ve been exposed, and to take steps before they become ill to learn where they can access testing and treatments, which I read as, "be prepared to get sick."

However the article above ends with, "AstraZeneca, the maker of Evusheld, said in a statement that it is investigating the safety and efficacy of a 'next-generation long-acting antibody' to prevent Covid-19 among immune-compromised people." 

I think the Reuters version of the article ended with President Biden urging immune-suppressed people to stay inside and wash their hands, so I guess this vague promise from the drugmaker is more palatable than that.

It has been three years now with this nonsense. I am ready to go the chicken-pox infected lollipop route now. It seems I could go off my MS meds for a month, build up my immune system, then deliberately get Covid and get antibodies that way. Why? Why wouldn't that work?

Comments

[KC]

Why not? Because people who have been infected once with covid are still getting re-infected, and in some cases the infections get progressively *worse* due to damage, instead of only the first one being rocky.

Also: stroke risk, long covid, etc. A friend's dad has long covid, to the "he can't perform normal activities of daily life without help" level, vs. him doing farming, roof repair, etc. before he had his one round of covid in the middle of last year.

Sorry. I think hermits gotta hermit a while longer, except for things you can do in an n95. (do I like eating with people and talking with them such that I can see their faces? YES. Is it worth potentially being further disabled for the rest of my life? NOPE.)

[theQueen]

KC - all true, it's just I am so royally sick of it.

[KC]

Yes. I take to hermiting rather naturally, but I am also sick of it, which... really says something.

(but also watching our society burn through its total human executive function and life expectancy is really depressing. The executive function loss is from a *ton* of sources, not just long covid, but man, that is one we could individually be changing. That and what we do with social media - maybe some other things as well?)