re: My elderly mom has the COVIDs - what's the best way to get monoclonal antibodies?

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MAB from my understanding and reading has been around since the 80s. Ant say the same for the shots or newly “approved” treatments.

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So if you're only going by "how long has it been around/in development" to determine what is a good pharmaceutical, you'd still lose. mRNA vaccines have been around since the 60s. But beyond that neither was adapted for covid, because obviously covid didn't exist until recently.

But I prefer to go by actual efficacy and data in placebo-controlled clinical trials and the reviews of the FDA.

It's just funny to me how the logic of a lot of people on this board is so inconsistent. With the vaccines it's "the FDA is corrupt, follow the money", but with MAB and antivirals, since they like those it's gonna be "they're great, and are super easy to get/take". Pharma companies developed all of them, ran all the trials, and the same FDA reviewed and approved all of them.