NorthJersey.com
It’s a nightmare. You develop a fever, lose your sense of taste and smell, and then test positive for COVID-19. You worry you may become short of breath, suffer alone in a hospital room, require a ventilator to breathe. You know there is no cure.
Since November, however, hospitals have offered hope to those at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19. It’s an infusion of monoclonal antibodies — an experimental treatment that has kept more than 95% of those who received it out of the hospital.
During a still out-of-control pandemic, that helps to save health care resources such as hospital beds, oxygen and personal protective gear.