The study suggests that all of the monoclonal antibody therapies currently in use and most in development are much less effective against Omicron, if they work at all. When administered early in the course of infection, monoclonal antibodies has shown to prevent many individuals from developing sev
Contrary to the popular view in India that Omicron causes only mild disease, evidence about the virulence of the highly transmissible variant is mixed.
Study finds that novel Omicron variant replicates faster than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and Delta variant in the human bronchus. At 24-hours after infection, the Omicron variant replicated around 70 times higher than the Delta variant and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus.
A full course of Pfizer s treatment is three pills taken twice daily for five days. Two of the pills are an experimental antiviral called nirmatrelvir, the third pill is an existing HIV drug called ritonavir.