This week, the Food and Drug Administration revoked Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly, a regulatory move that was expected because both drug makers have found that the infusion drugs are less able to target omicron due to the strain’s mutations.
The omicron variant is now believed to be responsible for more than 99% of COVID infections in the city.
"We are able to see up to nine [patients] a day," said Dr. Shankaran."The infusion takes about 30 minutes and then patients have to be monitored for an hour after. So the whole [process] takes about two and a half hours." "We’ve probably been doing about 300-to-350 infusions a week due to the surge," said Dr. Ana Gephart, the Chief Medical Officer at AMITA Health St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin."They’ve been very successful. People have been feeling much better after the treatment. But of course, it’s not a substitute for the actual vaccine."
"The paxlovid, the oral one people are most interested in, it has a lot of drug-to-drug interactions. Some of the people on the most medications can’t qualify," Arwady said. "And [Molnupiravir] can’t be taken if someone is pregnant, you have to do some extra testing."
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