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What is the role of monoclonal antibodies in treating myeloma patients who have COVID?

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• June 17, 2021

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Learn about the role of monoclonal antibodies in treating myeloma patients who have COVID in this HealthTree University lesson.

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Healthtree contact Zainab Shahid, MD, FACP

Zainab Shahid, MD, FACP

Transcript

There are two antibody cocktails that can be given in an outpatient setting in patients who have mild COVID-19 infection, meaning they're not requiring supplemental oxygen, they do not have pneumonia. So early in the phase of disease, we do administer monoclonal antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 virus to decrease the hospitalization or progression of disease with the infection. So we are actually utilizing these in the outpatient setting for our patients who have mild to moderate mild infection. They're quite complicated. I can give you the companies, the Lilly combination and the Regeneron. So what had happened is initially there was a single antibody, we call it BAM. However, because of the variants showing resistance to these antibodies, we advise against the use of a single agent. So now we use the cocktail antibodies for these.

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