Gov. Cooper tours Cape Fear Clinic to promote Covid-19 treatment (Port City Daily)

WILMINGTON — Monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid-19 are picking up steam. The infusions of antibodies into infected patients, when administered early enough and if the case is not too severe, decreases the likelihood of hospitalization. 

Two days after federal distribution policy for these drugs shifted, Gov. Roy Cooper toured the Cape Fear Clinic, a charitable clinic that performs monoclonal antibody infusions using a product made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. 

There are 186 clinics in the state offering the treatments, in which infused antibodies are bound to the virus, impairing its ability to take root in cells. Cape Fear Clinic was approved to start offering the infusions in January; it was one of the first non-hospital providers get there. 

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