An NHS worker has claimed her antibody test proves she caught Covid in the UK in December more than a month before the first cases were confirmed in the country. Sue Reader, 59, from Ogwell, Devon, believes she caught the virus during a trip to arrange travel documents from the Chinese Visa Application Centre in London on … Read more
Trials for AstraZeneca’s new ‘antibody cocktail’ treatment will begin in the UK – and it could prevent Covid-19 from developing for up to a year. A participant in Manchester will be the first in the world to receive the pharmaceutical company’s new ‘antibody cocktail’ as part of the trial to test its effectiveness. The clinical … Read more
A rapid Covid-19 antibody test bought by the Government may wrongly tell one in five people they have had the coronavirus. Number 10 placed an order for one million AbC-19 tests made by UK-based company Abingdon Health in October to be used for research purposes, in order to paint a better picture of how far … Read more
Two doctors are expressing their concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to quickly roll out coronavirus antibody treatments. In an editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, the physicians, from Harvard University, discussed REGN-COV2, the cocktail President Donald Trump received while he was ill. They say many questions about the … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday (FDA) authorized emergency use of Eli Lilly and Co’s experimental COVID-19 antibody treatment, which President Donald Trump has praised and vowed to make available free of cost for all Americans. The FDA said its emergency use authorization was based on clinical trials showing that the treatment, bamlanivimab, … Read more
An advert for a coronavirus ‘passport’ app featuring Zara Tindall having an antibody test has been referred to the medical regulator. The V-Health Passport system developed by VST Enterprises sees people take a test with the results then uploaded by a health administrator onto the user’s app. But an advert promoting it shows the Queen’s … Read more
Astrazeneca boss pins hopes on firm’s vaccine jab and antibody treatment to turn the tide in Covid fight By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 5 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 5 November 2020 British pharmaceuticals giant Astrazeneca warned that sales had been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic as it offered … Read more
Eli Lilly & Co’s coronavirus antibody treatment can almost completely reduce viral loads in COVID-19 patients to zero and lowers the risk of hospitalization. Researchers found that mildly and moderately ill patients given a high dose of the antibody, LY-CoV555 (also known as bamlanivimab), had viral loads that were 3.4 times lower than those who … Read more
The US government will play Eli Lilly & Co more than $1 billion in exchange for about one million doses of its experimental coronavirus antibody treatment. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration as it stocks up on vaccine and drugs in an attempt to tame the pandemic that has killed more than 225,00 Americans. … Read more
President Trump has been given at least three potent drugs since announcing he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday night: Regeneron’s cocktail of lab-made antibodies, the antiviral remdesivir, and the steroid dexamethasone. Two of those medications are still experimental for treating COVID-19, and have given emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). … Read more