 known to be effective against early coronavirus variants, which finally allowed his body to get rid of Covid. It's highly likely that the patient had the original Alpha strain of the virus. The variant currently in circulation in the UK, Omicron is milder than those that came before it and many people have now had a vaccine which also helps protect against severe illness. But due to the changing nature of the virus, experts said that these antibody treatments are now largely ineffective. Dr Luke Snell, from Guy's & St Thomas', said: 'Some new variants of the virus are resistant to all the antibody treatments available in the UK and Europe. 'Some people with weakened immune systems a){kind=link}
A CORONAVIRUS patient who tested positive for 411 days has finally gotten rid of the virus.
Doctors have hailed a cocktail of drugs used to treat the 59-year-old man.
Writing in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, medics in the UK said the patient had struggled to get rid of an early variant of the bug.
The patient had a weakened immune system after having a kidney transplant.
Medics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, and King’s College London said the man is thought to be one of the longest living patients with a persistent Covid infection.