Evusheld is a medication used to prevent COVID-19 infection in patients at high risk -- yet many people and even some doctors are unaware of it, or able to get it. Supplies of the potentially lifesaving drug outweigh demand.
Doctors monitor patients for an hour after giving Evusheld to look for allergic reactions. Other possible side effects include cardiac events, but they are not common.Doctors – and patients – from the United States to the United Kingdom and beyond,the medication is underused, while praising the recent efforts to expand access and increase awareness.
Many doctors who need to know about it, such as transplant doctors and rheumatologists, are outside the typical public health communications loop, he says. There were scarce supplies at first, he says, and some hospital systems gave priority access to those who were the most immunosuppressed.
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