Here are the COVID-19 treatment options available now.
using any plasma collected before the emergence of omicron and recommends only using it in people who are immunocompromised.
"We've actually used a lot of convalescent plasma throughout the pandemic in our immunocompromised patients because we feel that they often don't mount enough antibody response ," she explained.As much progress as we've made in developing COVID-19 treatments, there is still work to do — especially when it comes to making those options actually accessible.
Ranney agreed:"Unfortunately, there are groups across the country that continue to be unaware of the ability to get these treatments or simply don't have access to them," she said, notingshowing that Black, Asian and Hispanic people were less likely than white people to be prescribed monoclonal antibody treatment.
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