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Here’s what’s known about President Trump’s COVID-19 treatment

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Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.This afternoon, the White House announced that President Donald Trump had received an experimental antibody treatment after a test revealed he was infected with SARS-CoV-2.

He reportedly has mild COVID-19 symptoms, including fever and congestion, and he was transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center later in the day.What is the antibody cocktail that President Trump received?It’s a combination of two antibodies directed against a key protein of the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2.

They bind to a region on the main surface protein, spike,  that helps the virus attach to a receptor on human cells called ACE2.

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