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Regeneron announced on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing a lower dose of its CCP virus treatment for injection.The approval comes as an update to the FDA’s emergency use authorization (EUA) for the company’s antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The treatment has been available under the EUA since last November for those recently diagnosed with COVID-19.The FDA had in November authorized a 2,400 mg dose of the antibody cocktail REGEN-COV—a combination of the monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab—to be administered as a single dose directly injected...

Experimental Covid drug cures 30 out of 30 moderate to severe cases in Phase I clinical trial at Israeli hospital. Second new drug also shows promise.Even with Israel’s world-leading rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, drugs to treat Covid patients are in desperate need across the world. Two such drugs developed in Israel show great promise in clinical trials: EXO-CD24 and Allocetra. EXO-CD24, an experimental inhaled medication developed at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, cured all 30 moderate-to-severe cases in a Phase I clinical trial. Developed over the past six months at the hospital, EXOCD24 stops the “cytokine storm” – where the...

Israeli scientists and researchers are racing to find a cure for COVID-19, as global consensus is forming among medical professionals that vaccination is not going to eliminate corona. When Israel launched its mass vaccination campaign, there were many who believed there would no longer be a need for medication, Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, told The Jerusalem Post. “Now we know that this was an illusion,” he said. “Even in Israel, not everyone is taking the vaccine. There is quite a big population of youngsters...