Sotromivab is a monoclonal antibody that binds to the coronavirus to stop it being infectious. Moneyweb Covid
Back in early 2020, if you got ill with Covid there were no proven treatments for doctors to give you – it was one of the main things that made this disease so scary. Fast forward to 2021 and scientists have since uncovered a handful of options, but the hunt is continuing. More than 5,000 trials for Covid drugs are registered or ongoing. Thankfully, these are now bearing fruit. The World Health Organization has recently added two additional drugs to its Covid treatment guidelines.
Sotrovimab was shown to reduce hospitalisation and death by 85% in patients receiving a single intravenous infusion of the drug compared to a placebo. Sotrovimab was most effective when taken during the early stages of infection – it should be given within five days of symptoms appearing. Sotrovimab was also tested in around 500 patients already in hospital with severe Covid.
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