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Covid-19: why is an effective treatment against the BA.5 variant not available in France?

2022-06-24T13:24:51.077Z


The Lilly laboratory, which manufactures bebtelovimab, prefers to focus on the American market for the moment. Epidemiologist Antoine


In the arsenal of the fight against Covid-19, we find vaccination, preventive measures such as ventilation or wearing a mask in an enclosed place... but not only.

Several treatments are now available.

The only problem: either they struggle to find their audience, like Paxlovid, or they are less effective over time, like monoclonal antibodies.

Among these, one of the only, if not the only, still effective against new Omicron variants is… not available in Europe.

Swiss epidemiologist Antoine Flahault cries 'scandal' as France has entered a 7th epidemic wave.

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Source: leparis

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