Covid Monoclonal Antibodies, Experimenting “anti-Covid treatment with monoclonal antibodies at home is useful“says the pharmacologist Silvio Garattini at Adnkronos Salute, “because the time when these treatments appear to be most effective is the early stage of the disease and are not indicated in the hospital on patients already in an advanced stage.” The possibility of using monoclonal antibodies on the territory, in coordination with the hospital, would be provided for by the new ministerial protocol for anti-Covid treatment at home, which is expected in days. Garattini, however, states that “these drugs generally require more knowledge“.
“We are still in an experimental situation, we cannot take for granted their use and their effectiveness – he underlines – and we must therefore consolidate their use in practice to see what the benefit-risk ratio is. So – he concludes – home experimentation is useful precisely because it offers the possibility of studying them in the early stages of the disease “.