Use of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Mild to Moderate COVID-19 in Non-Hospitalized Setting

No therapeutic agent is currently approved for the treatment of SARSCoV-2 infection. More importantly, no intervention is currently available to mitigate the progression of disease from mid/moderate to serve particularly in high risk patients. Recognizing this limitation and urgency of finding a treatment for COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to permit the emergencyuse of the unapproved product bamlanivimab or casirivimab + imdevimab for the treatment of mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) in adults and pediatric patients with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing who are 12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg, and who are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.