No to Evusheld in the UK

[vivdunstan]

This is such a disappointing result for immunosuppressed people like me. Other countries around the world gave Evusheld to their immunosuppressed people a year or more ago, offering them vital protection at that time - which worked - against the then variants. The UK government chose not to, and delayed the decision making process so much in a rapidly changing variants situation that now the much delayed result is no. On plus there is a new version of Evusheld being developed. And on plus NICE has admitted that the current decision making process in such a time critical setting needs to be speeded up hugely. But yup, very disappointing. I am very lucky that I do have some good antibodies finally after 6 Covid vaccines, with a 7th vaccine probably due in the next few months (which will probably cause another 3 month long neuro flare, but ...). But many immunosuppressed people are not so lucky.

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-says-no-evidence-that-covid-19-treatment-evusheld-is-effective-in-protecting-vulnerable-adults-against-current-variants-as-it-announces-new-rapid-update-process-for-covid-19-medicines