Monoclonal antibodies and future IPC priorities - a chat with Jon Otter

<p>In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Jon Otter of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust in the UK about a couple of Jon's recent blog postings on the popular "Reflections" blog (<a href='https://reflectionsipc.com/'>https://reflectionsipc.com/</a>). We first discuss a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that reported on a study that examined the use of monoclonal antibodies in preventing infection in unvaccinated household contacts of COVID that can be found here <a href='https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109682'>https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109682</a>.</p> <p>Then we go on to discuss Jon's recent presentation on future priorities for iPC in healthcare, the slides for which are available here (<a href='https://jonotter.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/211014-the-future-of-healthcare-and-ipc.pptx'>https://jonotter.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/211014-the-future-of-healthcare-and-ipc.pptx</a>).</p>