Doctors stress that it's still vital to get vaccinated against COVID-19. "It's always better to prevent an infection than to treat it," Dr. Schaffner says. "Relying on treatment—which isn't 100% guaranteed to work—is a bit hazardous."
There's also no guarantee that you'll be able to access monoclonal antibody treatment when you need it or that you'll even get a COVID-19 diagnosis in time, he says.
"I like to remind people that wise old Benjamin Franklin once said that an ounce of prevention—the vaccine—is much better than a pound of cure—monoclonal antibody treatment," Dr. Shaffner says. "You don't want to get COVID if you can help it."
So, what's in this?
Who knows?
Republicans claiming the same about the preventive vaccines, they don't know what is in it, hasn't been FDA approved. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for
REGEN-COV (a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab, two different monoclonal antibodies) as well as the monoclonal antibody
sotrovimab for the treatment of "mild to moderate" COVID-19 and no one knows the long term effects.