(2021-01-02) Highly Touted Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Sit Unused In Hospitals

Highly Touted Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Sit Unused in Hospitals. Doses of monoclonal antibodies — Covid-19 therapies authorized for emergency use last month—are sitting unused in hospital pharmacies, even as cases surge across the country.

Hospitals say the rollout of the therapies has been stunted by a lukewarm response from infectious-disease specialists, who say they want more clinical trial data before using them on a regular basis.

health-care providers are administering just 20% of the doses they receive each week

some physicians just aren’t comfortable with prescribing the therapy because it is so new and it is hard to discern which patients will benefit from it, Dr. Ison said.