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Mary Garofalo tested positive for COVID-19 around Easter when, a couple of days later, she received a call from a nurse practitioner at her UPMC Hamot primary-care doctor s office.
Garofalo, 69, of Millcreek Township, was told that she would be a good candidate for monoclonal antibody treatment, an infusion that helps COVID-19 patients who are at-risk for complications. Her 74-year-old husband, Joe, also had tested positive for COVID-19 and was offered the treatment. I m diabetic and overweight, so I was a candidate, said Garofalo. I didn t understand it, so the nurse practitioner explained that it would strengthen us and help us get over COVID more quickly.
UPMC Hamot has begun treating COVID-19 patients with monoclonal antibodies, laboratory-produced molecules that help a person s own immune system fight viruses.
Seven patients have received the infusions so far at the Hamot Infusion Center, 215 Holland St. These are patients with COVID-19 who are at least 65 years old, have a body-mass index of 35 or greater, and have not had the illness for more than 10 days. These are patients with mild to moderate symptoms who are not hosptialized, said Daniel Gessel, Hamot s director of operations. The goal is to help them stay out of the hospital.
Hamot is one of 10 UPMC hospitals to receive an allotment of the drug. Saint Vincent Hospital also has received it and plans to begin treating patients on Jan. 4.