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The question is why has it taken so long to use this therapy?
Dr. Rand Paul advises that if diagnosed with COVID you should demand monoclonal antibody therapy.
Dr. Rand Paul advises that if diagnosed with COVID you should demand monoclonal antibody therapy.
- Doctors are increasingly turning to antibody drugs in a bid to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by a surge of COVID-19 patients
- Some states, including Texas and Florida, have seen a sudden increase of hospitalizations related to the virus
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, the primary provider of the treatments, delivered 135,023 drug doses to U.S. health care providers last week
- Fewer than 5% of high-risk patients were receiving treatment, before increasing recently to as much as 30%, according to Regeneron
- The drugs, which have been shown to prevent hospitalizations, are paid for by the federal government, and distributed to patients free of charge.
Florida and Texas turn to COVID-19 antibody treatments as cases rise
Doctors are increasingly turning to antibody drugs in a bid to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by a surge of COVID-19 cases, a turnaround months after the treatments weren't used.
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