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Monoclonal antibodies cost thousands of dollars per transfusion. A vaccine costs a couple bucks.

We are not going to make the pandemic manageable with monoclonal antibodies. The reason governments made the choice to push vaccines over them is because vaccines are actually in the range of economic possibility.

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The vaccines cost in the tens of dollars, depending on the negociating power of the country/bloc.

Their cost, as well as the cost of monoclonal antibodies, depends on the economies of scale.

Monoclonal antibodies are easier to produce than mRNA vaccines, so at similar production scale should be cheaper.

A dose of antibodies is ~20,000 times the mass of a dose of Moderna (which is 3x the dose of Pfizer).

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