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Antibody cocktails to treat Covid take off as Delta varient surges

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Ten-Day Window Timing is key. Patients are advised to get tested promptly, and “if you test positive contact your primary-care provider immediately to assess you for eligibility," UMass Memorial’s Jubbal said, “because the antibody treatments are supposed to be given within 10 days of onset of symptoms." Once a patient needs oxygen, it could be too late.

Often shortened to “mAbs," monoclonal antibodies are custom-made proteins that fight Covid by binding to the virus, keeping it from entering healthy cells and replicating.

Another monoclonal antibody -- bamlanivimab -- has been withdrawn from use because it lost potency against some later variants.

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