RE: if you become symptomatic with CoVID, please do not delay appropriate care — which is monoclonal antibody infusions. Regeneron is active against all strains — 10 days until severe disease, and this stops it in its tracks. Add decadron 6 mg a day x 5 days, and this is an absolutely effective treatment.
1) You do have to check in to a Doctor to get Regeneron, you can’t treat yourself with it ( it is an intraveneously injected drug ).
2) This should be STANDARD treatment for every Covid positive patient, i.e., they should not have to ask for it. And it should be OUTPATIENT as well.
3) Regarding decadron, do you need a prescription for it? If not, do you have to SPECIFICALLY Ask your doctor to prescibe it, or will doctors know?
Yes, a prescription is required for decadron, however there are many of us who will prescribe this immediately with a (+) covid test while setting up the Regeneron infusion — incidentally, Regeneron is OUTPATIENT only (why we cannot get it inpatient is frankly beyond me and I am fighting that fight everyday). You receive it in an infusion center
The decardon is the Mayo protocol and given early reduction in inflammation while awaiting the monoclonals. If inpatient and in bad shape — family should INSIST on trial of tocilizumab — this is showing some success at advanced disease