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New treatment is discovered that prevents death from Covid, but is expensive

New treatment is discovered that prevents death from Covid, but is expensive

A year after the discovery of a cheap asteroid drug that was said to prevent deaths from Covid, researchers say they have found another life-saving therapy.

This therapy is expensive, it is a powerful intravenous infusion of antibodies that neutralize the virus, instead of mitigating the inflammatory response of the body to it.

The results of the study have shown that this treatment helps one in three of those hospitalized seriously ill with Covid.

According to experts for every 100 patients treated, six lives would be saved. However only those who have not received steroid treatments to fight the virus can use the new treatment, which costs und 2000.

The monoclonal antibody treatment, created by the company Regenoron, binds directly to the virus to stop it from infecting cells and replicating.

The study included about 10,000 patients in Britain who had a significantly reduced risk of death, stayed less in hospital with an average of four days, reduced their risk of death from Covid and did not need a ventilator to breathe.

Meanwhile, the use of blood plasma by patients cured of the virus has not proved effective as anti-Covid therapy.

* Tiranapost.al.