Germany to administer Covid drugs used to treat Donald Trump
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from Science | The Guardian on (#5D99M)
Country will be first in EU to use antibody cocktails after government buys 200,000 doses
Specialist clinics in Germany will this week become the first hospitals in the EU to treat Covid-19 patients with expensive and experimental antibody cocktails used to treat the former US president Donald Trump after he caught the virus last October.
Monoclonal antibodies will be used in Germany as the first country in the EU, initially in university clinics," the health minister, Jens Spahn, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper, confirming that his government had bought 200,000 doses for 400m (355m).
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