Early research suggests monoclonal antibodies can protect from infection.
is moving at a never-before-seen pace, the nation's top scientists have said that a treatment called monoclonal antibodies might offer some protection from infection until we get a vaccine capable of delivering longer-term immunity.
But unlike convalescent plasma, which relies on blood donors, monoclonal antibodies are manufactured as a pharmaceutical product, meaning they should be much easier to produce in large quantities. The logo of Lilly is seen on a wall of the Lilly France company unit, part of the Eli Lilly and Co drugmaker group, in Fegersheim near Strasbourg, France, February 1, 2018.Now, experts are waiting for the results of large-scales studies to prove definitively that monoclonal antibodies can protect people from becoming infected, and to determine how long this protection might last.
But Eli Lilly calls its study the"first of its kind." Typically, in clinical research, volunteers are asked to travel to large academic medical centers for such infusions. Eli Lilly's study is unique because it uses customized mobile treatment vans to deliver the antibody infusions to nursing home residents and staff.
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