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COVID-19 is robust in both those who are only mildly ill and those who are critically ill.Researchers are hoping to learn more about exactly how the antibodies work with a goal of improving patient outcomes by helping to pinpoint who would require certain treatments. Coronavirus — meet the Ontario researchers responsible for 3 world-firsts The small study involved 56 people in four groups of 14: critically ill patients at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) with COVID-19, critically ill patients who tested negative for COVID-19, people who were mildly ill with COVID-19 and did not require hospitalization, and healthy controls.

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Covid treatment drug: Roche’s antibody cocktail is now available in India

₹59,750 inclusive of all taxes. The maximum retail price for the multidose pack (each pack can treat two patients) is ₹119,500 inclusive of all taxes.In total they can potentially benefit 200,000 patients as each of the 100,000 packs that will be available in India offers treatment for two patients.

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DRDO develops Covid antibody detection kit: All you need to know

₹75.The product has been developed in association with Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, a Delhi based development and manufacturing diagnostics company. DRDO noted, "It was developed indigenously by scientists, followed by extensive validation on over 1000 patient samples at various COVID hospitals in Delhi."The antibody detection kit was approved by ICMR in April 2021, while in May, it received the regulatory approval from the DCGI, CDSCO, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, for manufacturing the product.

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Canada’s Medicago says its COVID-19 vaccine shows promising antibody results in trial

COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial and could be ready for a final authorization request this summer.Nathalie Landry, the executive vice-president for scientific and medical affairs for Medicago, said the vaccine appears to produce 10 times the antibodies as are seen in people who have had COVID-19.“It’s very good news,” said Landry.“So based on these results, let’s say we’re quietly confident that we will be in a position to demonstrate good efficacy of the vaccine.” Medicago begins late-stage study of COVID-19 vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline The results are not yet peer-reviewed but Landry said other vaccines in use showed a direct correlation between the level of antibodies

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Roche gets Indian regulator’s nod for antibody cocktail to treat covid-19

NEW DLEHI : Roche India today announced that the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has given an emergency authorisation for the antibody cocktail developed by US-based Regeneron for treatment of covid-19.An antibody cocktail is mixture of two or more unique biological drugs that act like human antibodies in the immune system, and thereby fight the disease.The authorisation in India will allow Roche to import the manufactured batches of the antibody cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab, which will be marketed and distributed in India through a strategic partnership with Cipla Ltd.

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COVID-19: Online learning to continue at Fleming College and Trent University for spring semester

COVID-19 — Active cases fall to 76 for Peterborough area, 4 outbreak outbreaks in region “Everything we’ve done since the beginning has been anchored in safety. We’re going to continue down that road.

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Seminole County opening antibody infusion center for COVID patients. Here’s how it works

SANFORD, Fla. – Leaders in Seminole County are opening a first-of-its-kind treatment center designed to help coronavirus patients who are at risk of worsening conditions.

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 antibody drug prevents symptomatic infection by 81%, study finds

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - A COVID-19 antibody cocktail developed by U.S. drugmaker Regeneron offered strong protection against symptomatic infection when given to people living with someone else infected with the virus, the company said.Regeneron on Monday shared clinical trial results, which found that its REGEN-COV treatment reduced the overall risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 81%, compared to those who received a placebo.In November, the drug received an emergency use authorization from the U.S.

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CVS MinuteClinic offering COVID-19 antibody testing

CVS Health will now offer COVID-19 antibody testing for its MinuteClinic patients who want one.

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Lilly-Vir's COVID-19 antibody combo reduces viral load in study

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Inside the ICU: Alberta physicians share COVID-19 experiences one year later

Alberta doctors reflect on COVID-19 one year later and what’s next What unfolded in the following months changed frontline physicians forever.“It’s brought the humanity of critical care to the forefront that I’ve never seen before,” Markland said. “It’s made me a better physician.”It was a major learning curve, both about the virus itself and new ways of patient care.What stood out for both physicians was the types of patients were unlike ever before – they were still awake and talking.“We were so entangled with these people because nobody with COVID was in and out real quick,” Markland said.

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Scots university's pioneering Covid-19 antibody test is 'more accurate' than those currently available

Covid-19 antibody test that’s better than those currently available has been developed by researchers at a Scots university.Serology tests detect if a person has previously had the virus and are important tools in tracing its spread.However, some existing antibody tests are not suited to rapid mass deployment as they can be inaccurate and also detect other coronaviruses including some versions of the common cold.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing up to our daily newsletter?We send a morning and lunchtime newsletter covering the latest headlines every day.We also send coronavirus updates at 5pm on weekdays, and a round up of the week's must-read stories on Sunday afternoons.Signing up is simple, easy and

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AstraZeneca, US agree 500,000 more supplies of COVID-19 antibody cocktail

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Vir Biotech, GSK's covid-19 antibody trial shows 85% drop in hospitalization or death

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COVID-19 anniversary: How the university experience changed in Manitoba

COVID-19.Sarah Stoesz was one of those people faced with a year separated from friends and new classmates.“It’s definitely not at all what I was expecting earlier, knowing that university is such a big jump from high school and now it’s just — it doesn’t feel like such a big jump because I finished high school from my bedroom and now I’m continuing university at my desk in my room as well,” she said.

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Unpredictability of COVID-19 severity may come down to antibody response, study shows

Nature Medicine, researchers might be gaining a better understanding of why an infected person would become seriously ill.As Dr. Francis Collins wrote in a blog post for the National Institute of Health, it comes down to the type of antibody response the person produces.The type of antibody response produced by an adult with mild COVID-19 is remarkably similar to the type produced by kids with mild infections, the study showed.

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Pfizer says lab test indicates diminished antibody response by its COVID-19 vaccine to South Africa variant

NEW YORK - A laboratory study from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech suggests that the company’s current COVID-19 vaccine may generate a significantly less robust antibody response against the South Africa variant of the coronavirus. According to the in vitro study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), lab results "indicated a reduction in neutralization," of the virus."This finding is consistent with recent reports of the neutralization of variant SARS-CoV-2," Pfizer wrote in a news release published Wednesday. RELATED: Severe winter storms will cause ‘widespread delays’ in COVID-19 vaccine shipments, CDC saysResearchers analyzed blood from people who had taken the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine and identified a two-thirds reduction in

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Eli Lilly's antibody therapy gets FDA emergency use authorization for covid-19

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Senior Liberal staffers discussed withholding details about COVID-19 response: Internal emails

office and the office of another federal Liberal cabinet minister privately discussed how to withhold information from Canadians about the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis last June, newly released emails show.The correspondence details part of what was going on behind the scenes as Liberal staffers prepared for announcements and anticipated public scrutiny and criticism. It also suggests that the government was concerned about its ability to procure desperately needed supplies and wanted to ensure as much flexibility as possible.

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Regeneron's covid-19 antibody cocktail effective against virus variants: study

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Glaxo, Eli Lilly join forces to test Covid-19 antibody cocktail

Another cocktailLilly reported positive results Tuesday from another combination with its antibody drug. A mix of bamlanivimab with the antibody etesevimab cut the chances of hospitalizations and deaths by 70% in high-risk patients.

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7 residents at Sherbrooke Community Centre in Saskatoon test positive for COVID-19

coronavirus outbreak at Sherbrooke Community Centre in Saskatoon is spreading.Seven residents at two houses in Kinsmen Village at the long-term care home have tested positive for COVID-19, Sherbrooke announced Thursday. 3 die amid sweeping COVID-19 at long-term care home in Saskatchewan “This is unfortunate news to share but we continue to work closely with public health authorities to ensure our response will keep our residents and staff safe and move Sherbrooke into recovery,” said Sherbrooke CEO Suellen Beatty.“We are taking every precaution available to ensure the virus is contained, with the health and safety of our residents and staff remaining our top priority.

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London, Ont., COVID-19 antibody test under review could allow for fast, inexpensive testing

COVID-19 antibody test that is faster and more accurate than any currently approved in Canada.A scientific article about the test, currently under peer review but available as a pre-print, says it can be completed in five minutes and can use blood or plasma samples to detect antibodies, “with 100 per cent specificity and 98 per cent sensitivity.” Potential sepsis treatment could be ready in 5 years thanks to London, Ont., researcher “My test is really quite simple, it works very similar to the typing that is actually performed very routinely in clinical labs,” says Shawn Li of the Li Lab at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.“It uses a very cheap interior called microbeads, could be made from the latex or any and those

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New COVID-19 strains shows possible 'resistance' to antibody, but not vaccines

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (red), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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Antibody-rich convalescent plasma may lower risk of COVID death

Administration of antibody-rich convalescent plasma to adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who did not require mechanical ventilation was linked to a lower risk of death than transfusion of plasma with lower antibody concentrations, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Coronavirus: COVID-19 devastates Saskatchewan small town care homes

COVID-19 and 24 of the 26 residents contracted the disease, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA)Global News has learned that six residents at Lakeview Pioneer Lodge in Wakaw have now passed away. All 44 residents were infected, along with 40 staff members.

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GSK, Vir Biotech to test antibody for COVID-19 treatment

GSK and US-based Vir Biotechnology will evaluate a second antibody-based treatment in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in an early- to mid-stage trial, the companies said on Tuesday.The new trial, supported by England's National Health Service, is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2021 at multiple sites across the UK, the companies said in a joint statement.Preclinical data suggested the companies' monoclonal antibody (mAb) has the ability to clear infected cells and the potential to enhance virus-specific T cell function, which could help treat and/or prevent infection.This would become the second mAb from the Vir-GSK collaboration to be investigated as a potential COVID-19 treatment, with the first currently being assessed

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151 new COVID-19 cases, 5 deaths reported in Manitoba

LeBlanc: vaccine rollout criticism from provinces ‘a bit simplistic,’ Canada remains ‘on track’ As of 9:30 a.m.

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Coronavirus: Health expert warns of less Saskatoon COVID-19 testing over holidays

COVID-19 in Saskatoon’s wastewater said it appears the city won’t face a post-holiday spike in cases.But a public health expert said the province-wide decrease in testing, combined with relatively stable amounts of new cases every day, likely means the rest of the province will experience a few weeks of tragedy.“I think in all likelihood… the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths will continue to increase for a few weeks yet,” Dr. Cory Neudorf said.

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Regeneron says covid antibody therapy showed promise in hospitalized patients

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday initial data from an ongoing study of its experimental antibody cocktail for use in some hospitalized COVID-19 patients show the therapy was sufficiently effective to warrant continuing the trial.The company is testing the therapy, a combination of two antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab, in hospitalized patients requiring low-flow oxygen.The drugmaker said in September the cocktail reduced viral levels and improved symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients.Also Read | Ten books from 2020 you must not missStudy participants included those who produced an effective immune response on their own (seropositive), and those whose immune response was not yet adequate (seronegative).Seronegative

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UK scientists trial instant immunity antibody drug treatment for COVID-19

UK have begun trials of innovative antibody drug treatments that they hope could provide instant protection against COVID-19.The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) said that the researchers in the Storm Chase study believe a Long Acting AntiBody (LAAB) known as AZD7442, developed by AstraZeneca, may offer immediate and long-term protection to people who have been recently exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and prevent them developing COVID-19.The study, led by UCLH virologist Dr Catherine Houlihan, recruited the first participant in the world to the study earlier this month and has recruited 10 participants since then.“We know that this antibody combination can neutralise the virus, so we hope to find that giving this

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AdventHealth opens outpatient COVID-19 antibody treatment clinic

ORLANDO, Fla. – AdventHealth opened a new clinic offering monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19 patients.The clinic is at AdventHealth Orlando’s campus and is separate from the COVID-19 unit in the ER.

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One company's quest for an antibody drug to fight COVID-19

On a Saturday afternoon in March as COVID-19 was bearing down on New York City, a dozen scientists anxiously crowded around a computer in a suburban drug company’s lab. They had spent weeks frantically getting blood from early survivors across the globe and from mice with human-like immune systems — all to test thousands of potential treatments.Now it was time for results.The screen flashed totals of glowing green dots, hundreds or thousands in most samples.

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Antibody cocktail treatments show some benefit in 2 COVID studies

Two studies published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine discuss outcomes in COVID-19 patients given monoclonal antibody treatments, one showing that tocilizumab lowered the odds of needing mechanical ventilation and death but did not improve survival, and the other finding that REGN-COV2 lowered viral load—particularly in patients whose immune response hadn't yet been triggered or had a high viral load at baseline.

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Saskatchewan using H1N1 experience in COVID-19 vaccine rollout

COVID-19 vaccination plan next week, relying in part on the province’s experience delivering the H1N1 vaccine.On Wednesday, Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman said the government developed a “very robust” plan more than a decade ago in response to the H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic in 2009, which included the involvement of current chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab.

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LifeLabs announces new COVID-19 antibody test for British Columbians

If you spent any of the last few months feeling a little under the weather but never took a COVID-19 test, or if you’re simply curious if you might be an asymptomatic carrier, there’s now a way to find out. Jules Knox reports.

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COVID-19 cases spike in Banff as mayor calls for support from province

Banff has some of the highest per capita active COVID-19 case numbers in Alberta according to the province, sitting at 1,097 cases per 100,000.That makes it the third-highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate in the province. In comparison, as of Nov.

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12 more COVID-19 deaths Sunday and 243 COVID-19 cases in Manitoba

10 more Manitoba COVID-19 deaths Saturday, more than 8,000 known active cases The deaths are all from Winnipeg and include:The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.7 per cent provincially and 13.4 per cent in Winnipeg and 243 new cases of the virus have been identified as of 9:30 a.m.

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FDA approves emergency use of Regeneron COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy used to treat President Trump

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US grants emergency use authorization to Regeneron covid-19 antibody given to Donald Trump

COVID-19 antibody therapy, an experimental treatment given to U.S. President Donald Trump that he said helped cure him of the disease."Authorizing these monoclonal antibody therapies may help outpatients avoid hospitalization and alleviate the burden on our health care system," said Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.The treatment is by U.S.

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Do you suspect you’ve had COVID-19? Here’s an easy way to get an antibody test and confirm

What does my result mean? Learn more about COVID-19 antibody testing.” (It’s like the Red Cross knows that we’re not all health experts). Thank goodness!It’s on this screen that the results are broken down:If you have a ...Positive test result: “(This) indicates potential previous exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19 resulting in the development of specific antibodies to the virus, regardless of whether you experienced COVID-19 symptoms.

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Coronavirus: Saskatchewan hospitality industry prepares for more COVID-19 restrictions

COVID-19 regulations.On Tuesday, Premier Scott Moe said the government would consult with the hospitality industry, gyms and sports organizations “on steps we can take to improve the guidelines and to make each of these venues and each of these activities safer.”On Wednesday morning the CEO of the Saskatchewan Hotel and Hospitality Association told Global News he’s been in constant contact with government officials and that no specifics have been discussed yet. Saskatchewan looks to feds for help as contact tracing becomes challenging He said the pandemic has been terrible for the industry and that strict regulations, or another lockdown, must be avoided.“It would be catastrophic.

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Steinbach doctor speaking out after testing positive for COVID-19

COVID-19.Dr. Foster had been working as the designated COVID-19 physician at the Bethesda Regional Health Centre in Steinbach, seeing first-hand the hit COVID-19 was taking on the health care system.“We rearranged the rehabilitation ward and opened up 10 COVID beds there.

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FDA gives emergency OK to Eli Lilly antibody treatment for COVID-19

WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental approach against the virus that has killed more than 238,000 Americans.The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared the experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization.

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FDA authorizes emergency use of Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody therapy to treat COVID-19

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US allows emergency use of Eli Lilly's antibody therapy for treating Covid-19

Covid-19, widening access to a treatment that early data suggests is effective in keeping people infected with the coronavirus out of the hospital.The Food and Drug Administration authorized the treatment, called bamlanivimab, for use against mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adult and pediatric patients, the agency said on its website.Shares of Eli Lilly gained 4.5% in late trading on Monday. Through the close, the stock had advanced 8.3% so far this year.The clearance gives doctors an option for tackling the virus in high-risk patients before they’re sick enough to require hospitalization.

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Eli Lilly's COVID-19 antibody treatment shows promise

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week shows that Eli Lilly's COVID-19 convalescent plasma–derived virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibody treatment (LY-CoV555) reduced viral loads, lowered the severity of symptoms, and had no serious adverse effects in outpatients.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
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