A medicine that may treat and prevent Covid-19 is now being tested in patients in multiple sites around the US, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced. If successful, Regeneron hopes it could be available by the fall.
It is the first trial of a Covid-19 antibody cocktail in the United States. If successful, Regeneron hopes it could be available by the fall. The clinical trial started Wednesday.
Antibodies are proteins the body naturally makes to protect the body from a threat like Covid-19. To make what's called monoclonal antibodies for an antibody cocktail, scientists comb through thousands of antibodies to figure out which ones fight the novel coronavirus most effectively.
Tarrytown, New York-based Regeneron has successfully created other US Food and Drug Administration-approved antibody therapies that fight eye problems, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Regeneron's Ebola treatment worked so well, its clinical trial was stopped early in August 2019. Data showed it was better at saving lives than some of the other therapies being tested. The FDA accepted REGN-EB3 for priority review in April.
Regeneron scientists said they had spent years preparing for a pandemic like Covid-19."Most scientist have said for years there's potential for pandemics like this novel coronavirus to emerge," Regenron scientist Kristin Pascal previously told CNN."So we thought, let's be prepared."To get ready, Pascal and her team ran speed challenges to see exactly how fast they could create a treatment for an emerging threat.
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