Re:Ebola Is Now Curable
by sp332 on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:36PM
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Other treatments mentioned in the same paragraph cut mortality rates to 34% or 29%.
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Re:Ebola Is Now Curable
by squeaky-clean on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:44PM
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If I'm reading this right, the 29% and 6% are the same drug. It has a 6% mortality rate when administered very early in the illness.
> The monoclonal antibody cocktail produced by a company called Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had the biggest impact on lowering death rates, down to 29 percent, while NIAID’s monoclonal antibody, called mAb114, had a mortality rate of 34 percent. The results were most striking for patients who received treatments soon after becoming sick, when their viral loads were still low—death rates dropped to 11 percent with mAb114 and just 6 percent with Regeneron’s drug, compared with 24 percent with ZMapp and 33 percent with Remdesivir.