Is There Going to Be an Explosion of Monoclonal Antibody Treatments Now?

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There are several of them that are out there now. Several companies have them, and they've moved on from testing just one by itself to testing cocktails of two monocle a bodies mixed together. And those are, in general, looking to be quite promising as well. And it's just a matter of finding a the right way to use them.

In the early days of the pandemic, researchers raced to identify the most potent antibodies produced by the immune system in response to SAR-COV-2 infection and produce them in bulk. The resulting ‘monoclonal antibodies’ have since been tested in a variety of settings as treatments for COVID-19.

But despite promising clinical trial results and several therapies having already been approved, antibody therapies have not yet played a large role in the fight against COVID-19. In this episode of Coronapod, we ask why.

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