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Covid: Xevudy, the promising antibody therapy approved by the Haute Autorité de Santé

This Friday January 7, 2022, the Haute Autorité de Santé announced they have approved the use of Xevudy against Covid, a promising synthesized antibody therapy. The drug seems particularly effective against the Omicron variant. Here is more on the matter!

Covid: Xenothera's therapy, Xav-19, working against Omicron

And what if, amid the fight against Covid, one could rely – in addition to the upcoming vaccine – on antibody-based treatments? After Bamlanivimab – the treatment developed by the Eli Lilly laboratory – or even Regeneron, this is now French Nantes-based laboratory Xenothera’s turn to present a treatment undergoing clinical trials, Xav-19. According to primary studies, the therapy is effective against Covid's Omicron variant, but waiting for the green light for marketing from early 2022.

Covid: antibody cocktail Regeneron working up to eight months, the laboratory claims

Good news in the search for the fight against Covid… Regeneron announced their antibody cocktail injected in cases of severe disease was 80% effective for at least eight months, according to the drugmaker’s latest studies. It involves a cocktail of antibodies given in 2020 to U.S. President Trump when we was hospitalized for severe covid.

Covid: a new antibody therapy developed by Spiklmm under rolling review

Is a new Covid therapy based on monoclonal antibodies soon to be reviewed? This is what infectious disease specialist and member of Spiklmm biotech administration board Karine Lacombe has explained. The very laboratory is developing this therapy. Clinical trials are expected to start from the beginning of 2022.

Covid: “superhuman” immunity in some individuals, several studies found

According to several studies – including one released in renown Science magazine – some Covid sick have developed an immune response that “appears to be impressively potent”. Antibodies able to fight very effectively against coronavirus and its variants, as well as against future strains of the virus.

Covid vaccine: Moderna vaccine effective for at least 6 months, the company says

The American company has released results from the second quarter and confirms their Covid vaccine is effective for at least 6 months.

Covid: immunity longer and stronger in people infected

Several studies released in May 2021 confirm Covid-19 infection gives stronger immunity likely to last for several years. Injecting the vaccine could enable to strengthen the positive effects against the virus.

Covid: vaccines effective against "all COVID-19 virus variants", WHO claims

Are Covid vaccines – developed to stop the virus in its standard strain – effective against the different variants spreading worldwide? This Thursday May 20, 2021, the World Health Organization states currently used vaccines are effective against "all COVID-19 virus variants".

Covid immunity: antibodies protecting from the virus to stay for over 12 months

How long is one immunized against Covid? A question searchers from all around the world have been looking for answers for. According to one of the latest studies carried out by Strasbourg university hospitals, antibodies protecting against coronavirus stay for over 12 months in one's body, and vaccine improves their effectiveness.

Covid: the United Kingdom to launch a clinical trial to study Coronavirus reinfection

Searchers from the Oxford University recently announced they are launching a trial to study Covid reinfection to understand how it can occur, determine antibodies’ lifespan more exactly, and help laboratories in developing more effective vaccines.

Covid: Eli Lilly antibody therapy said to reduce hospitalization risks, a study finds

As the race for Covid vaccines and therapies is speeding up all over the world, drugmaker Eli Lilly announced this Wednesday March 10 their antibody therapy mixing Bamlanivimab and Etsesevimab is said to reduced by 87% hospitalization and death risk in the event of severe infection. A combined therapy that received emergency use authorization back to late February from the Food & Drug Administration.

Anticorps, the Palais de Tokyo exhibition on virtual tour

The Palais de Tokyo is taking inspiration from the health crisis to offer visitors a brand new exhibition, Anticorps, from October 23, 2020 to January 3, 2021. A retrospective that invites you to plunge into the heart of your body, in every artistic sense of the word, to be experienced online!

Coronavirus: asymptomatic cases to lose their antibodies quicker, a study says

Discoveries as for coronavirus still go on... After the June 2020's Chinese study released on June 18 saying that people infected by the novel coronavirus but who showed no symptoms may develop a weaker immune response, a new British study rubs it in. Keep reading to find out more.

Can you catch coronavirus twice?

This is a question many people ask after some patients cured have been tested positive for coronavirus another time.

Coronavirus: WHO officials say it’s “unclear” whether immunity to second covid-19 infection is possible

Once tested positive for Covid-19, then recovered, is it possible to be infected again? This is the main issue to handle the health crisis, but which answer remains “unclear” the World Health Organization said.