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Right, Dr. Wolf-Dieter Krahn treated, left, Jeffrey Johnson with the monoclonal antibodies treatment, which reduces the chances of hospitalization or death for people diagnosed with COVID-19.
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A specialized treatment to help people, especially those over the age of 65, who have tested positive for COVID-19 may be the reason a Jamestown man is still alive.
The treatment is monoclonal antibodies, Monoclonal “mono” means “one” and “clonal” means “copy” antibodies are a type of medication that seeks out the COVID-19 virus in a person’s body and blocks it from infecting their cells and replicating. According to Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC medical director of infection prevention and hospital epidemiology, the use of monoclonal antibodies in a recently infected COVID-19 patient has the ability to reduce the chances of hospitalization or death by 70%. He said UPMC has provided the treatment to more than 1,000 COV