{"id":1924,"date":"2022-12-20T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:54:39","slug":"one-of-our-best-covid-19-treatments-doesnt-work-anymore-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/20\/one-of-our-best-covid-19-treatments-doesnt-work-anymore-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn\u2019t work anymore. What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/23495149\/covid-19-treatment-monoclonal-antibody-therapy-drug\">Vox<\/a>) Covid-19 is once again trending upward in the United States, with new cases reaching\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\">more than 450,000<\/a>\u00a0and deaths climbing up to 3,000 per week. But hospitals will have to face this year\u2019s winter surge without a valuable tool. In late November, the Food and Drug Administration revoked its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/drug-safety-and-availability\/fda-announces-bebtelovimab-not-currently-authorized-any-us-region\">emergency use authorization for bebtelovimab<\/a>, a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, because it wasn\u2019t effective against the latest variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Now, there are no monoclonal antibody treatments left that work against BQ.1 and BQ.1.1., the subvariants of the omicron variant that are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\">currently causing most new infections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\" feT B  Od WQUH  agUeFzph Ya  x\"> feT B  Od WQUH  agUeFzph Ya  x<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Vox) Covid-19 is once again trending upward in the United States, with new cases reaching\u00a0more than 450,000\u00a0and deaths climbing up to 3,000 per week. But hospitals will have to face this year\u2019s winter surge without a valuable tool. In late November, the Food and Drug Administration revoked its\u00a0emergency use authorization for bebtelovimab, a monoclonal antibody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}