Monoclonal antibody treatment saving lives

Monoclonal antibody treatment saving lives

OUR BEST EFFORT, STHE PANDEMICIS FAR FROM OVERBU, T WMAR 2NEWSWHATEFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR TSEWHO CONTRACT THE VIRUS.HERE AT THIS MODULAR CARECENTER, DOCTORS FROM THEBALTIMORE CONVENTION CENTERFIELD HOSPITAL DELIVERINFECTED PATIENTS FROMPOTENTIALLY THWOT-EPOSSIBLE OUTCOMES.

THOUSANDSOF PATIENTS HAVE RECEIVED ALIFE- SAVING INFUSION THAT AMONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENT,AND 67-YEAR-OLD CONSTANCETAYLOR GOT HERRIGHT HERE IN BALTIMORE.“Thetreatment was easy.

I feelkind of silly, because it wasso easy I didnhad started the treatment danI kept waiting.’Whennurse coming back?came back in, and I said,’Well, when are you going tostart’Youdon’!(laughterDR. ) SOPHIA PUREKALSERVES AS THE MEDICAL DIREORCTAT THE BALTIMORE CONVENTNIOCENTER FIELD HOSPITALINFUSION CENTER ATOU SGRENEE AND LOMBARD STREETS.“Monoclonal antibodies providea protein that is similar towhat e thbody makes to fightinfection.

These medicationswere made in laboratories andmodelled after ones that weermade by people who survivedCOVID, and these ones wereshown to be particularlyeffecte ivat binding to theCOVID virus and preventing itfrom entering human cells apreventing it from growing”AT-RISK PATIENTS CAN GETREFERRED TO THE INFUSIONCENTER FOR TREATMENT BY THEIRDOCTORS OR BY USING THE FIDELHOSPITALAT NO OUOF-PT-OCKET COSTS TOTHEM.

THE TREATMENT TESAKABOUT HALF AN HOUR, PLUS ANHOUR MORE FOR OBSERVATIOONAN OUTPATIENT BASIS.“I saidto my husband,’I thi inktworkin’I thinkitmidnight.

I said,’I thinki’Howdo you know itsaid,’I can feel a changinemy body’Youbeing silly.coughed, the phlegm camep uand I coughed less, and thenover a period of I guess fiveto six days, I stopdpecoughing altogether”“THEFIELD HOSPITAL HAS NOWADMINISTERED THE TREATMENT TOMORE THAN THREE THOUSDANPATIENTS, AND OF TH14-THOUSAND WHO HAVE RECEIVEDIT IN MARYLAND, ITIT HAS HELPED PREVENT 700HOSPITALIZATONS AND 300DEATHS.

REPORTING IN DOWNTNOWBALTIMORE, JEFF HAGER, WMA2RNEWS”HEALTH AUTHORITIES EARTRACKING A POSSIBLE NEW STR