It’s a drug called Evusheld that gets antibodies into your system without the vaccine, and is intended for people who are immunosuppressed.
show it’s 77% effective at preventing COVID, and the protection lasts about 6 months.
Here’s how the drug is different from the COVID vaccine. The vaccine stimulates your immune system to produce antibodies that fight off the virus. People on certain medications or who have conditions that impact their immune system can’t generate that same response.
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