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Doctors call monoclonal antibody cocktail ‘first Covid treatment’
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The antibody cocktail is a combination of Casirivimab and Imdevimab, which are laboratory made monoclonal antibodies. The cocktail works just like antibodies produced in the human body in response to any viral infection.
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The initial use of monoclonal antibody cocktail, the combination of drugs used on former US President Donald Trump and given emergency use approval in India in early May, has given encouraging results, with doctors involved touting it as the “first real treatment for Covid-19”.
Eight-four-year-old Mohabbat Singh, a resident of Haryana, was the first patient in India to be administered the antibody drug cocktail at Medanta Medicity, Gurugram, on May 25. The doctor treating him, Sushila Kataria, told ET, “the patient has tested negative. We have administered the drug cocktail to 15 patients so far. All are fine. This is the first real treatment for Co