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Two COVID-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant’s latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete.

A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a"Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020.A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a"Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020.

The virus has since evolved, and mounting evidence from lab tests suggests the two therapies – sotrovimab as well as casirivimab-imdevimab – have limited clinical activity against the latest iterations of the virus.On Thursday, WHO experts said they strongly advised against the use of the two therapies in patients with COVID-19, reversing previous conditional recommendations endorsing them, as part of a suite of recommendations published in the British Medical Journal.

“Now WHO has issued this recommendation, it will be interesting to see how many other countries align with it,” she said.

 

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