on Wednesday he promised to make it free to Americans while touting its benefits.
According to his doctor, blood tests on Monday detected infection-fighting antibodies, which a Regeneron spokesperson said were probably from the treatment. Regeneron's drug is a cocktail of 2 monoclonal antibodies - manufactured copies of antibodies that are one of the main weapons the immune system generates to fight infections.
Dr. Dirk Sostman, head of the research network at Houston Methodist Hospital, a trial site for Regeneron and Eli Lilly & Co antibody programs, said more patients are asking to participate in an antibody trial."All we have seen are very brief press releases... so there is not much to go on," he said. "Obviously you can't prove that until you do a number of studies to show that it actually works," he said."If he is responding at a pace where he is truly much better, it is going to be due to the antibodies," said Dr. Edward Jones-Lopez, infectious disease specialist at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
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