British scientists trial new Covid antibody therapy that could give patients INSTANT immunity: The drug that gives 'instant immunity' to coronavirus? NHS trials new antibody therapy that may stop people who have been exposed to Covid becoming ill and could save thousands of lives
Drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine
It could be given as an emergency treatment to hospital inpatients, care home residents and university students to help reduce the spread of the virus
Scientists from the University College London Hospitals NHS (UCLH) have injected ten people with the drug
