.ZeeshanAleem: Why monoclonal antibody treatment is popular among some vaccine skeptics — and what makes it so compatible with the right’s ruthless individualism.
over the risks of using new technology to deal with a disease. But many of them are flocking to hospitals after having contracted Covid to get infusions of monoclonal antibodies — also a new technology to deal with a disease. This may seem like a paradox, but it isn’t a mystery. This tale of two technologies shows that vaccine hesitancy isn’t simply fear of new inventions but often a symptom of retrograde ideology.
While vaccines protect the people who receive them, they also represent a step toward protecting others in their community by reducing infection and transmission rates. But monoclonal antibodies are generally being turned to as a way to manage Covid after it has been contracted and possibly spread within a community.
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