COVID-19

US approves first Covid-19 antibody treatment

US regulators on Monday authorized emergency use of the first experimental antibody drug for COVID-19 in patients who are not hospitalized but are at risk of serious illness because of their age or other conditions. Read the story:

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday (November 9) granted the emergency use of the first experimental antibody treatment for Covid-19.

Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab is a monoclonal antibody, or a synthetic copy of an antibody used by the immune system to fight infection.

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