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Only one antibody treatment works against omicron — and it’s running out | TheHill

By December 27, 2021News
Vaccine 2021 08 30 23 21 06 utc

Vaccine 2021 08 30 23 21 06 utc

As the omicron variant became the dominant strain in the U.S. this week, health care providers are left with fewer options to treat positive COVID-19 patients as most of the existing treatments have been found to be less effective in fighting off the new variant.

Up until recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had been distributing three types of COVID-19 antibody treatments, Regeneron monoclonal antibodies, Eli Lilly’s antibody treatments and GlaxoSmithKline’s sotrovimab monoclonal antibody.

 

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