Why are monoclonal antibodies dividing docs treating Covid-19? Erika Edwards
Dr. Michael Saag cannot get enough monoclonal antibodies to treat Covid-19.
They re not for him, personally; he still has natural antibodies to the coronavirus since recovering from the illness this past March.
But Saag, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said he would take the monoclonal antibodies made in a lab to mirror the body s natural immune response to the virus in a heartbeat if he were to be infected a second time.
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Unlike the antiviral drug remdesivir and the steroid dexamethasone both of which are given to patients hospitalized with Covid-19 monoclonal antibodies are the only therapy authorized by the Food and Drug Administration so far that is meant to prevent patients from being hospitalized in the first place. The FDA has granted emergency
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