{"id":374506,"date":"2021-11-30T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/regeneron-warns-antibody-cocktail-may-be-less-effective-against-omicron\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:49:10","slug":"regeneron-warns-antibody-cocktail-may-be-less-effective-against-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/regeneron-warns-antibody-cocktail-may-be-less-effective-against-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"#Regeneron warns antibody cocktail may be less effective against Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Regeneron warns antibody cocktail may be less effective against Omicron<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Regeneron warned its popular antibody cocktail used to treat high-risk cases of COVID-19 may not be as effective against the new Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based pharmaceutical company said initial analyses indicate that \u201cthere may be reduced neutralization activity of both vaccine-induced and monoclonal antibody conveyed immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regeneron \u2014 which markets REGEN-COV, the most widely used monoclonal antibody therapy to treat COVID-19 in the US \u2014 cautioned that further studies are needed to determine whether the Omicron variant can evade its therapies.<\/p>\n<p>It also added that \u201cpreliminary analyses suggest\u201d that other treatments it is developing could work against Omicron. Regeneron said it anticipates new data on the treatments sometime next month.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Regeneron were recently off 1.7 percent, at $642.85, in Tuesday morning trades.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody cocktails to Regeneron, Eli Lilly, and GlaxoSmithKline.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>GlaxoSmithKline, the producer of the sotrovimab monoclonal antibody treatment, told Barron\u2019s that its treatment is \u201clikely to maintain activity and potency\u201d against Omicron. The pharmaceutical giant said that it is conducting lab tests in order to confirm its findings \u201cas a matter of urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eli Lilly said that it is conducting its own studies to determine just how effective its monoclonal antibody treatment, etesevimab, is in combating Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Lilly were down more than 5 points on Tuesday while GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s stock gained about a quarter of a point.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment entails giving patients infusions of high concentrations of antibodies that fight infection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/omicron-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Lab technician holds vial with omicron marked on label\" class=\"wp-image-20318015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/omicron-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 594w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/omicron-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=297 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\"\/><figcaption>Regeneron said that additional treatments in progress could better fight off Omicron.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Monoclonal antibodies differ from vaccines, which are injected into the body and then trigger a natural immune response. It then takes the body weeks to build up enough antibodies to prevent serious infection.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans who have been hesitant to take the vaccine have expressed preference for monoclonal antibody treatment, though the therapy costs some $2,000 per dose.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, Regeneron reported $677 million in sales of its monoclonal antibody therapy \u2014 surpassing Wall Street estimates. The company\u2019s treatment has accounted for 1 million of the 1.7 million doses of antibody therapies that have been administered in the US since mid-September, according to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel spooked investors on Wall Street on Tuesday after he warned that current vaccines could be less effective against the Omicron strain.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a material drop,\u201d Bancel told the Financial Times on Tuesday. \u201cI just don\u2019t know how much because we need to wait for the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bancel added: \u201cBut all the scientists I\u2019ve talked to\u2026[say]: \u2018This is not going to be good\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments triggered another sell-off on Wall Street \u2014 the second in the past three days of trading.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently off 453 points, or 1.3 percent, at 34,683 on Tuesday while the S&amp;P 500 was also off 1.3 percent. 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The New York-based pharmaceutical company said initial analyses indicate that \u201cthere may be reduced neutralization activity of both vaccine-induced and monoclonal antibody&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/regeneron-omicron.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[120608,1545,82862,120464,73840],"class_list":["post-374506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-30-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-omicron-variant","tag-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}