Israel to offer AstraZeneca’s Evusheld to immunocompromised people
Evusheld has been approved by the US FDA and has proven to be 83 per cent effective in preventing serious illness and death from COVID-19, the health ministry said
Israel will start offering AstraZeneca’s antibody cocktail Evusheld, which is used to prevent COVID-19, to people with compromised immune systems who did not get a sufficient antibody boost from vaccines.
Evusheld has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has proven to be 83 per cent effective in preventing serious illness and death from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.
It is not a treatment for those already sick or a prevention for those already exposed to the virus, it said.
Evusheld will be made available for people aged 12 and older who weigh more than 40 kg (88 lb), according to a health ministry statement.
It said Evusheld will “be given regardless of past recovery from COVID-19 or receiving previous coronavirus vaccine doses, provided that two weeks have passed since getting the vaccine.”
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