The lab-grown proteins help the body target and eliminate a COVID infection.
According to Dr. Thomas Gullatt, the chief medical officer at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana, they've become one of the center's most effective therapies. "It's done a great job of helping high-risk patients stay out of the hospital," Gullatt told CBS News' David Begnaud.
Gullatt said that if a patient is "having profound oxygen requirements, continued high-grade fevers and dehydration," they are considered too sick to receive the monoclonal antibodies.as compared to two weeks ago. But there are also more than 3,000 still in the hospital with COVID.with a one-time intravenous infusion three weeks ago as COVID was attacking his body.He and his wife, Meg, both received the antibody treatments at the same time.
Scotty was unvaccinated, while Meg received a COVID vaccine. Johnson said his wife suffered no symptoms and was back to normal day-to-day activities shortly after.
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