© Reuters/RACHEL WISNIEWSKI FILE picture: Exterior photos of the North the us headquarters of AstraZeneca (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's experimental COVID-19 antibody drug cocktail succeeded in reducing extreme disorder or dying in non-hospitalised patients in a late-stage study, the British drugmaker spoke of on Monday.
The drug, known as AZD7442, reduced the risk of developing severe COVID-19 or death by way of 50% in patients who had been symptomatic for seven days or less, assembly the leading goal of the trial.
"An early intervention with our antibody can give a major reduction in development to extreme sickness, with persisted insurance policy for more than six months," noted Mene Pangalos, government vice chairman, biopharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca.
The enterprise will talk about the facts with health authorities, it introduced, with out elaborating.
AstraZeneca is also developing the drug cocktail as a therapy to offer protection to americans who will not have a robust ample immune response to COVID-19 vaccines. It requested emergency approval from U.S. regulators for its use as a prevention drug final week.
(Reporting by Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; editing by means of Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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