A new drug in the works might provide coronavirus immunity

[Andy Meek]

• Development of a potential new coronavirus treatment is underway in Britain, where researchers are trying to put together a dose of antibodies that would provide instant coronavirus immunity.
• The idea is to develop a coronavirus treatment that works in tandem with COVID vaccines to curb the spread of the pandemic.
• People would be given this new antibody regimen as a coronavirus treatment when they've been exposed to the coronavirus, in the hopes that this drug prevents them from fully contracting an infection.

If you've been following any of the news out of Britain in recent days, you're probably aware that a stringent series of lockdown protocols has been implemented there, following a scary surge in coronavirus cases that also reflects the presence of the more transmissible COVID variant which has been worrying experts around the world. Within a matter of days, though, the UK will approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, ahead of an overall vaccine rollout that's already seen at least 600,000 people in the UK given jabs so far.

Moreover, there's also reason to be hopeful that tools are coming online to fight the pandemic beyond COVID vaccines. Along those lines, experts at the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) are working on a coronavirus treatment comprised of antibodies that they're hoping could offer long-term protection to patients when it's otherwise too late to give them a COVID vaccine.

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