Doctors Deploy Antibody Drugs Against COVID-19 And Hope Effort's Worthwhile
Posted on AllSides November 25th, 2020
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More than 2,400 hospitals and related facilities have received their first doses of new drugs that are designed to keep mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients out of the hospital. But it's not clear how much the drugs will help these patients – and whether the medicines will reduce the demand for hospital beds.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to two monoclonal antibody formulations – bamlanivimab, produced by Eli Lilly, and a two-antibody combination developed by Regeneron.
These drugs are supposed to prevent the coronavirus from...