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Bill Gates believes that the monoclonal antibody treatment being used by the US President may be the most effective cure for Covid-19.
On October 2, US President Donald Trump received an injection of monoclonal antibodies produced by the biotechnology company Regeneron, which includes a pair of monoclonal antibodies that target mutant proteins that nCoV uses to attack healthy cells. strong.
The White House owner later announced that Regeneron therapy had cured him, helping him get out of the hospital after four days of treatment to return to the White House on the night of October 5.
“The word cure is too much,” Gates laughed in an October 8 interview. “It makes people feel like this works for everyone and that all worries about this disease are going to go away, and that’s the last thing we want people to think about.”
Bill Gates interviewed today 8/10. Image: CNN.
Regeneron and the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co have applied to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an emergency license for their monoclonal antibody products.
Data from the early Eli Lily & Co clinical trials show that monoclonal antibodies reduce hospital admissions by 60 percent, Gates said.
Eli Lily & Co said on October 8 that it had reached an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to ensure that Covid-19 antibody therapy could be provided to low- and middle-income countries. The therapies will be produced at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies facilities in Denmark.
Monoclonal antibody treatments could be much cheaper than the formulas currently used to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases, which cost hundreds of thousands, Gates said. USD per year.
“Those are the most promising treatment elements,” Gates said. “The initial data is pretty good. If all goes well, the cost of the intervention could be a few hundred dollars or even less than 100 dollars.”
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is a famous philanthropist. He and his wife founded and donated $ 36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the goal of improving health care and reducing poverty globally. The fund has up to $ 46.8 billion in funding, according to a 2018 report.
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