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There is a free treatment available in San Diego County that can significantly minimize the severity of COVID-19, and even prevent death, but not enough people are taking advantage of it, officials say.
Drugs containing coronavirus monoclonal antibodies have increasingly shown an ability to pick off the pathogen before it gets the chance to cause critical cases of COVID-19.
The county health department, which opened a free monoclonal clinic in Chula Vista — one of the hardest-hit cities in the state — on April 19 in cooperation with the state and San Ysidro Health, had treated only 49 patients in the past month, fewer than was expected given that a similar arrangement that opened in February in Escondido has dosed 247.