Credit Eli Lilly and Company
There’s a new sheriff in town in the treatment of the coronavirus, now being offered by, among others, Ascension-Sacred Heart Hospital.
“It’s taken a while to figure out how to pronounce this thing in full; it’s kind of a tongue-twister Bamlanivimab. We just call it ‘Bam’ for short,” said Dr. Peter Jennings, Chief Medical Officer at Ascension Sacred Heart Health System.
Bam, an Eli Lilly and Company product, is what’s called an investigational medicine used to treat non-hospitalized adults and adolescents 12 years and up with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms and who are at high risk for developing more severe symptoms.