Eli Lilly says its new drug made people immune to the coronavirus

[Andy Meek]

• Drugmaker Eli Lilly has released the findings from a study showcasing what appears to be a promising coronavirus treatment that prevented nursing home staff and residents from being infected with a symptomatic case of COVID-19.
• The drug contains monoclonal antibodies and showed considerable promise as a prevention measure against coronavirus.
• To-date, 22.4 million COVID-19 vaccinations have been completed in the US.

The race is on to vaccinate as many Americans as possible, as quickly as possible, with that rush currently targeting people like the medically vulnerable as well as the elderly and residents of nursing homes who tend to be among the hardest-hit during the coronavirus pandemic.

Regarding the latter, CVS Health on Monday announced that it's administered the first round of COVID-19 vaccine doses to almost 8,000 US nursing facilities. The pharmacy chain's administration of second doses of the COVID vaccine is underway now and expected to be done within four weeks. All told, CVS has administered almost 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine and has a capacity to boost that to 20 million to 25 million shots per month, the company told Reuters. And while that's certainly great news -- it's helped add to the overall total of vaccinations in the US, which is now at 22.4 million inoculations since they began in mid-December -- vaccines aren't the only promising coronavirus-related news on the horizon. Drugmaker Eli Lilly, for example, just announced that it may have a breakthrough coronavirus treatment to employ in the fight against COVID-19.

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