Updated: 5:19 PM EDT Apr 27, 2021 There s new treatment available for COVID-19 patients at Howard County General Hospital.|| COVID-19 updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||The hospital is offering monoclonal antibody infusion therapy, which uses lab-made proteins that mimic the immune system s response to a virus like COVID-19. If administered 10 days after infection, it can prevent hospitalization or worsening COVID-19 systems. Johns Hopkins Medicine has been providing this treatment in partnership with the University of Maryland Medical System at the Baltimore Convention Center at the field hospital that has been stood up there since earlier this year. What we strive to do is to make this more convenient for the residents of Howard County and all of our patients to be able to benefit from this therapy being offered locally here in the hospital, said Dr. Shafeeq Ahmed, interim president of Howard County General Hospital.Despite restrictions an