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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.