← Return to Just approved: Evusheld for the pre-exposure prevention of COVID-19

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The purpose of Evusheld is to give some covid antibodies to patients that are unable to create antibodies from the vaccine due to severe immune suppression. An example would be an organ transplant patient on immune suppression drugs who had three or four doses of the covid vaccine and still has zero antibodies when tested. Evusheld is currently 77% effective. Evusheld is different from the vaccine. The vaccine offers much greater protection, but when the immune system is unable to respond to the vaccine, giving Evusheld is currently the next best thing.
There is currently a very limited supply and it should be prioritized to protect the very specific population of vulnerable high-risk immune suppressed individuals that are unable to respond to the vaccine and have no protection.
Vaccines are still number one in protection. If you responded to the vaccine, you have the greatest protection and you will not receive Evusheld. The vaccine (with booster) offers the greatest protection. Hope this helps! 😊

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Thank you for sharing this information. It explains a lot more than my doctor telling me that I didn’t meet the criteria.

Hey @hello1234, have you checked with your transplant team to make sure it’s ok we take Evusheld?