It is given by IV so probably a hospital or outpatient clinic.
Yes, as far as I know it's only administered in a hospital setting (it's an IV drug and the person I know got it at RWJ) and only under direction of their doctor, so your first step to talk to your doc is the right one. These mAbs are most effective for people with mild to moderate symptoms (before hospitalization and severe illness), which it appears you have.
Didn't realize you also had it - great to see you recovered and yeah, people dismissing this as the "flu" are simply in denial.
Got one of these and when I told my Doc I did at my last checkup in June, he said by the time it starts telling me I have an issue, I'll already know it and have difficulty breathing. My only retort would be that the pulse oximeter would confirm it.
Might want to find a new doctor. There are many many of stories about people showing up at hospitals with low oxygen levels who didn't report any difficulty breathing. Search for the term "happy hypoxic".
Hopefully she didn't use a good single malt scotch!
Thanks. The last two things I posted on this are above: i) a Japanese study on this and ii) a paper/data from Crotty et al on durable antibody and T-cell responses lasting 6+ months (Chinese data is up to 9 months now, given they were exposed earlier). These data on infected/recovered patients and the data from vaccinated people showing even stronger levels of neutralizing antibodies/T-cells are all strongly indicative of probably at least a few years immunity for the vast majority of infected/recovered and vaccinated people. I'll take a look to see if anything new on this has been posted, but these studies are at least very, very encouraging of durable immune system responses.
No but now that I think about it I’ll have her spray me with Jack Daniels Honey tomorrow .
Thanks. For once in my life, I was ahead of a trend and actually had it in March. I was once of the first in Bucks County - so early that I had it a week before I even began to realize what it was. I most likely got it on March 12 - the day the Big East tournament (and others, I guess) were scrapped. Had a new dishwasher delivered and installed that day, and the delivery guys had New York plate on their truck and spoke with very 718-area-code accents at a time when COVID was really starting to rage in Queens. No one was wearing masks - it wasn't part of anyone's protocols yet - and they were pretty close talkers. Great guys, actually, but it probably did me no favors.
No such thing as "certainty" in infectious disease science for a new virus, but read the paper I posted above from Crotty, where they followed 180 infected/recovered patients for 5-8 months and profiled their immune responses over time and most of them had durable responses throughout. That's not by chance, plus there have only been a handful of documented reinfections out of millions of PCR-positive cases, so there's just about no way that could explain the responses.
Thanks, I appreciate the input, I check it anyway, which is currently reading 97. When you find the perfect general practitioner, let me know. This one is pretty laid back, maybe a little too much, lol,
My comment was meant to be sort of tongue-in-cheek. My own GP would probably say something similar, and I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't prescribe ivermectin for one thing. But he's good in other ways.
Yep. My daughter attended a Sweet 16. I guess that was the party favor? (Not funny)
Word. Welcome to the other side! You should have antibody protection for a while.
It may be off patent but Merck is probably the only one making it. We donate every dose to WHO
So you’re saying there are lots of cases where people smell like farts?
I’m giving some real world experience. Never said it was a cure. Calm down squirt.
