Trump’s COVID-19 IV therapy gets green light for mild-to-moderate cases
Earlier this year, we all followed closely as President Trump battled COVID-19 while hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center right here in Maryland.
In fact, I recently shared with you right here in eAlert how Trump’s doc experimented with giving the president natural therapies, like zinc… vitamin D… and even melatonin.
But there was something else that Trump received – something that was so brand new at the time, the FDA hadn’t even approved it yet.
Well, the president has come out the other side of his COVID-19 infection…
And now, the feds have given the greenlight so that more folks… with certain types of coronavirus cases… could have access to this “presidential” therapy.
Here’s what we know about this latest approval.
Rodents… to the rescue?
You may have heard about Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 intravenous monoclonal antibody cocktail…
But until just over a week ago, you’d have to be the U.S. president in order to get it!
That just changed – as the FDA has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for those over age 12 who’s tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
That includes seniors over 65… even with certain chronic conditions.
In both cases, patients need to be at risk for developing severe COVID-19.
The theory is that this therapy… a combination of the synthetically cloned antibodies known as casirivimab and imdevimab… could help keep folks with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections OUT of the hospital.
And trust me, you DON’T want to get hospitalized right now… for ANY reason!
You want to stay far, far away from the emergency room, too.
But don’t RELY on the availability of THIS drug… or ANY drug… to get you through a COVID-19 infection UNSCATHED.
The maker of this “cocktail” has only got 80,000 doses so far… which are being shipped out this week as part of the federal government’s “Operation Warp Speed.”
That won’t even cover the number of Americans that are reported as “new” cases in a single day – a number that’s topped out over 100,000 daily since early November.
Even if you CAN get it… because it’s an injection, you need to get it in a clinical setting.
That means getting yourself to a hospital or clinic…
Which is exactly where you DON’T want to be!
Plus, it takes an hour to receive the intravenous infusion… and an hour afterwards to stick around for “monitoring.”
If a single injection doesn’t work… and the infection progresses, especially to the point of hospitalization… research so far shows that getting MORE of it won’t do any good.
That’s not all…
Because some folks may not feel comfortable with receiving immune cells that have been created in a laboratory…
From hamsters that have been genetically-engineered to have human immune systems!
Could monoclonal antibody cocktails help bridge the gap until we’re all able to get vaccinated against COVID-19?
Possibly.
That’s what many folks have been praying for.
But one thing has never been clearer.
You’ve got to SHORE UP your OWN immune defenses… and not RELY on ones coming from an outside source that merely MIMIC human immunity.
Where can you start?
Well, a good place could be exactly where Trump’s doc did – with zinc, vitamin D, and melatonin.
To staying out of the hospital,
Melissa Young
