US pharmaceutical company begins human testing of COVID-19 antibody cocktail

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US pharmaceutical company begins human testing of COVID-19 antibody cocktail
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Thursday said it has begun human testing of its experimental antibody cocktail as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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The trial has an "adaptive" design and could quickly move from dozens of patients to eventually include thousands, Chief Scientific Officer George Yancopoulos told Reuters.

The dual antibody, called REGN-COV2, is being compared to a placebo treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and in COVID-19 patients who have symptoms but are not sick enough to be hospitalized. Antibodies are proteins made by the body's immune system that recognize, bind and neutralize an invading virus.

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