Bill Gates touts monoclonal antibodies treatment as effective cure to COVID-19

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lauded moclonal antibody treatments, similar to one US President Donald Trump received following his COVID-19 diagses, as most effective approach to cure coronavirus infections. While talking to CNN on October 8 (local time), Gates said that experimental antibody treatments have always been “most promising rapeutic category”. While cure is still undergoing tests for efficacy, he said that “early data looks quite good”.

ding that everything goes well, cost of intervention could be only a few hundred dollars or even $100. Trump also received experimental Regeneron antibody rapy which was one of two s of antibodies that was very successful with Ebola. After testing positive for COVID-19, Trump was hospitalised at Walter Reed Medical Center and returned to White House four days later after receiving antibody cocktail by biotech company Regeneron that includes a pair of moclonal antibodies targeting spike protein on virus that pathogen uses to penetrate inside healthy cells. 

Meanwhile, Regeneron and pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co have applied to US Food and Drug ministration (FDA) for emergency use authorisation for ir moclonal antibody products. And Gates said preliminary data from clinical trials of Eli Lilly And Co’s moclonal antibody indicates a 60 per cent reduction in hospitalization rates. According to Microsoft co-founder, se treatments might also be far cheaper than formulations that are currently being used to treat COVID-19. 

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Researchers are 'optimistic'

Before Bill Gates, even director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Dr Anthony Fauci said that researchers are “really quite optimistic about” moclonal antibodies treatment. In a separate interview with CNN, he explained that experts have h experience with that kind of cure for or diseases. 

Talking about experimental treatment and its effect on Ebola, Fauci said that it h “us be cautiously optimistic that moclonal antibodies, which are a very specific protein, right, that body makes that you can produce in very large amounts and infuse it into an individual by an IV infusion, has potential to really be something very, very important in treatment of COVID-19 patients.”

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