{"id":334280,"date":"2020-10-13T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=334280"},"modified":"2020-10-13T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T00:39:31","slug":"is-regenerons-experimental-treatment-a-cure-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/334280","title":{"rendered":"Is Regeneron&#8217;s experimental treatment a cure for Covid 19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump claims that the experimental antibody drug treatment he has received has cured his Covid-19 infection. In an interview with CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation, Regeneron&#8217;s CEO Leonard Schleifer agrees but says that more clinical trials are needed:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real evidence has to come about how good a drug is and what it will do on average has to come from these large clinical trials, these randomized clinical trials, which are the gold standard. And those are ongoing&#8230; We&#8217;ve got some preliminary evidence that we&#8217;ve talked with the FDA, and we&#8217;re going for an emergency use authorization because we think it&#8217;s appropriate at this time,&#8221; Schleifer said. Watch the full interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1142\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Be8A9dUtV6w?t=187\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine and medical director at New York University, wrote on the Wall Street Journal that &#8220;the CDC criteria as well as the multiple laboratory analyses of the virus itself&#8221; confirm that President Trump is no longer contagious.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Siegel added: &#8220;The president told me in a late July interview that he was more excited about therapeutics in the short term even than vaccines. He said he thought a day could come soon when a patient might receive treatment for Covid and walk out of the hospital the next day. I thought he was too hopeful. But he was <a href=\"https:\/\/mereja.com\/words\/Prescient\">prescient<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump claims that the experimental antibody drug treatment he has received has cured his Covid-19 infection. In an interview with CBS&#8217;s Face the Nation, Regeneron&#8217;s CEO Leonard Schleifer agrees but says that more clinical trials are needed: &#8220;The real evidence has to come about how good a drug is and what it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5819,5821,5820],"class_list":["post-334280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-covid-19","tag-leonard-schleifer","tag-regeneron"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Regeneron-Covid-19-treatment.png?fit=699%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1oXC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334298,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334280\/revisions\/334298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}