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Re:Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center af... by runarb on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:19PM (#24667618)
> Apparently he was given an experimental antibody treatment earlier today? Anyone have any more info on that?

According to my local newspaper it is REGN-COV2: https://www.regeneron.com/covid19 . It appears to be a synthetic replication ment to mimic antibodies from humans covid survivors.

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Re:Trump to be hospitalized at Walter Reed medical center af... by lbeltrame on Friday October 02, 2020 @07:17PM (#24668007)
This was hot off the recent information that it can cut duration of symptoms in half in people that have not yet mounted an effective immune response.
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