A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 195 million people worldwide and killed over 4.1 million of them.
The Food and Drug Administration is now permitting preventative use of the monoclonal antibody cocktail from Regeneron for certain people who have been exposed to COVID-19.
This is the first preventative therapy for unvaccinated and immunocompromised people in high-risk settings, aimed at proactively warding off infection before a positive test.
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