{"id":10231,"date":"2021-06-07T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10231"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:51:47","slug":"early-monoclonal-antibody-administration-can-reduce-both-hospitalizations-and-mortality-in-high-risk-outpatients-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-monoclonal-antibody-administration-can-reduce-both-hospitalizations-and-mortality-in-high-risk-outpatients-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Monoclonal Antibody Administration Can Reduce Both Hospitalizations and Mortality in High-Risk Outpatients with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Treatment with monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy, including casirivimab\/imdevimab and bamlanivimab, was associated with a significant reduction in the frequency of hospitalization compared to controls not receiving mAb treatment (1.7% vs. 24%) in a retrospective study of 617 outpatients with COVID-19 classified as high-risk (n = 175 received mAb). There were no COVID-19-related deaths in the mAb group vs. 12 (2.7%) among controls (p=0.024). The authors note that the mAb group was older, was more likely to be male, had more comorbidities, and a higher COVID-19 risk score.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jenks et al.\u00a0(June 6, 2021). Early Monoclonal Antibody Administration Can Reduce Both Hospitalizations and Mortality in High-Risk Outpatients with COVID-19. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab522\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab522<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatment with monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy, including casirivimab\/imdevimab and bamlanivimab, was associated with a significant reduction in the frequency of hospitalization compared to controls not receiving mAb treatment (1.7% vs. 24%) in a retrospective study of 617 outpatients with COVID-19 classified as high-risk (n = 175 received mAb). There were no COVID-19-related deaths in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-monoclonal-antibody-administration-can-reduce-both-hospitalizations-and-mortality-in-high-risk-outpatients-with-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10231\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10231"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}