(UPI) — A new study published on Wednesday said researchers have found that a coronavirus antibody treatment cocktail reduces the risk of COVID-19 deaths among hospitalized patients by 20%.
Researchers at Britain’s University of Oxford found that the cocktail, produced by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, helped patients in hospital who hadn’t mounted their own immune system response.
Previous studies have shown the cocktail shortens duration of symptoms and reduces the risk of hospitalization or death.
“Definitive Phase 3 trials have now demonstrated that REGEN-COV can alter the course of COVID-19 infection from prevention to very early infection, all the way through to when patients are on a ventilator in the hospital,” Regeneron President Dr. George Yancopoulos said in a statement.
Oxford University researcher Peter Horby called the study results “very exciting” and said the treatment may be used to reduce symptoms in some of the worst COVID-19 cases.
“It is wonderful to learn that even in advanced COVID-19 disease, targeting the virus can reduce mortality in patients who have failed to mount an antibody response of their own,” Horby said in a statement.
The company said it will give the new data to regulatory authorities to expand availability for the treatment. read more..
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.
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Carol, please have a remote starter placed in your car or have someone you don’t like start your car. Be safe Hon, ( of note, in Maryland, you are officially a Hon. Unless we are dating, then you get to be a Honey Bunny or some other saccharine affection).
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