{"id":44530,"date":"2020-07-31T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=44530"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:57:51","slug":"cohen-explains-a-game-changing-treatment-for-covid-19-not-being-talked-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-explains-a-game-changing-treatment-for-covid-19-not-being-talked-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen Explains a Game Changing Treatment For COVID-19 Not Being Talked About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4353\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 240px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/cohen-authors-science-perspective-on-antibodies-to-prevent-hiv-image2-e1590632609201.png\" alt=\"Myron Cohen, MD\" width=\"230\" height=\"224\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">Myron Cohen, MD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"6cb8\" class=\"ku kv as kw b ho kx ky hr kz la lb lc hw ld le hz lf lg ic lh fk ef li\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/a-game-changing-coronavirus-treatment-that-no-ones-talking-about-f466fe83954a\">Elemental<\/a><\/strong> Magazine reports most of the public\u2019s interest has been focused on the progress of the various vaccine candidates, <a class=\"co gg gh gi gj gk\" href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/a-reality-check-on-the-coronavirus-vaccine-a0012b2c6954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which could provide<\/a> the ultimate form of protection against the novel coronavirus. However, much less attention has been paid to monoclonal antibodies, which are drugs that contain specialized proteins that are intended to stop SARS-CoV-2 from infecting healthy cells. The report says these drugs do the work of a vaccine, only they do it more quickly and efficiently \u2014 if also less durably.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/myron-cohen-md\/\">Myron Cohen<\/a><\/strong>, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, explained the potential for monoclonal antibodies to be a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/a-game-changing-coronavirus-treatment-that-no-ones-talking-about-f466fe83954a\">game-changing treatment<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the article <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/a-game-changing-coronavirus-treatment-that-no-ones-talking-about-f466fe83954a\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elemental Magazine reports most of the public\u2019s interest has been focused on the progress of the various vaccine candidates, which could provide the ultimate form of protection against the novel coronavirus. However, much less attention has been paid to monoclonal antibodies, which are drugs that contain specialized proteins that are intended to stop SARS-CoV-2 from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-explains-a-game-changing-treatment-for-covid-19-not-being-talked-about\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cohen Explains a Game Changing Treatment For COVID-19 Not Being Talked About\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-44530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cohen Explains a Game Changing Treatment For COVID-19 Not Being Talked About | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cohen-explains-a-game-changing-treatment-for-covid-19-not-being-talked-about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cohen Explains a Game Changing Treatment For COVID-19 Not Being Talked About | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elemental Magazine reports most of the public\u2019s interest has been focused on the progress of the various vaccine candidates, which could provide the ultimate form of protection against the novel coronavirus. 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