
33. B-Cell Depleting Therapies and COVID-19
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Pax Loven and COVID-19
Al: Pax Loven has so many drug drug interactions that fortunately you only need to take it for five days. It does help quite a bit, although the five days may be too short for some of the immunosuppressed where they're on B-cell-green therapies. So potentially there's a theoretical risk that if you just do five days, they're going to rebound again. Al: With this reduced antigen load, because we've suppressed the virus replication, is that actually a bad thing? But at the same time, it makes sense to be able to give antivirals when you have infection.
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