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Gottlieb: Coronavirus variant in South Africa may evade antibody drugs – Business Insider – Business Insider
Gottlieb said the US needed ramp up vaccines before new coronavirus variants, including one that has been identified in South Africa, take hold.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the US Food and Drug Administration, has warned that a coronavirus variant identified in South Africa may evade antibody drugs that treat COVID-19.
Speaking on CNBC on Tuesday, he said that early evidence from the Seattle-based Bloom Lab, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, suggested that the new variant could partially escape antibodies that fight the coronavirus.
This means drugs that use antibodies from someone previously infected by the coronavirus might not…
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