This is what could keep you out of the hospital if you catch COVID-19

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins University researchers shows that more than 17.9 million coronavirus cases have been reported in the US as of the time of this writing.
• Public health officials say antibody drugs from Eli Lilly and Regeneron could dramatically reduce coronavirus hospitalizations.
• However, the rollout of these coronavirus antibody drugs has been patchy, at best.

So much importance has been attached to the ongoing rollout of coronavirus vaccines around the US right now from drugmakers like Pfizer and Moderna, but there's another COVID treatment already close at hand that's being vastly underutilized.

That's according to federal health officials like US Health Secretary Alex Azar and Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific advisor for the federal government's Operation Warp Speed vaccine program. They're referring to antibody drugs from pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly and Regeneron, which can cut coronavirus hospitalizations in half or more. However, new reporting shows that while some 65,000 doses of the drugs are being distributed to states each week, somewhere between only 5% and 20% are being used.

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