How to Use monoclonal in a Sentence

monoclonal

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  • Last week, the president said the U.S. was on track to begin to run out of monoclonal antibodies by the end of May.
    — Jack Turman, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The most common of these are a type of cancer drug called monoclonal antibodies, proteins that bind to and kill tumor cells.
    — Tom Anchordoquy, The Conversation, 17 June 2022
  • The monoclonal antibodies that can be used against the Omicron variant are sotrovimab and bebtelovimab.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Next week, the government will have to cut shipments of monoclonal-antibody treatments by a third.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The new course of monoclonal antibodies are meant to prevent a new case, which could be devastating for him.
    — Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Thirty-six of the mutations were to the virus's spike proteins, which cover the outside of the virus and are the main targets of vaccines and treatments like monoclonal antibodies.
    — NBC News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Last month the White House began cutting back shipments of monoclonal antibody treatments to states to make supplies last longer.
    — Zeke Miller, Chron, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Last month, the White House began cutting back shipments of monoclonal antibody treatments to states to make supplies last longer.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • At the same time, monoclonal antibody treatment supplies distributed to states each week has been cut by 35%.
    — Karen Travers, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Another injectable drug, Bebtelovimab, is a monoclonal antibody and can be given to those age 12 and older who weight at least 88 pounds.
    — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • Already, some monoclonal antibody treatments were rendered useless and had to be abandoned as the virus evolved.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The President said the administration's supply of monoclonal antibodies will start to run out by the end of May.
    — Kate Sullivan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The jury is still out on how severe these strains are, but there are early reports that monoclonal antibody treatments, reserved for high-risk patients, can’t stand up to them.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2022
  • To keep people out of the hospital, the Health Wagon had been treating people with Covid-19 with monoclonal antibodies.
    — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Since the start of the pandemic, Anderson said, the protease had changed 10 times as slowly as the spike protein that vaccines and monoclonal antibodies target.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • Right now, both the antivirals and the monoclonal antibody treatment that works against omicron are in extremely short supply, and they are reserved for those at highest risk.
    — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Sotrovimab is a monoclonal antibody therapy for the same group of patients.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • And even now, while vaccines and antivirals still work against them, monoclonal antibodies do not.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Right now, there are no vaccines for the virus, and only one preventive drug is available in the U.S.: a tough-to-administer monoclonal antibody that’s available only to high-risk kids.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Research to date suggests that monoclonal antibodies can reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by up to 80% compared to people who don’t take the drugs.
    — Alice Park, Time, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Some of the monoclonal antibodies made to give people passive immunity against the virus have also stopped working against the new variants.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • While the variant does seem to have evaded some drugs called monoclonal antibodies, antiviral drugs are thought to still have efficacy.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • White and insured people have accessed monoclonal antibodies at far higher rates than the uninsured and people of color.
    — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In the case of two children awaiting transplants, they were being treated with monoclonal antibodies — authorized for those 12 and older — to slow down the disease process and intravenous remdesivir to help clear it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Efforts have ranged from conserving monoclonal antibodies and Paxlovid when supplies were low, to now dealing with contrast dye.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
  • Perhaps the biggest hurdle in getting the antiviral pills to the public is the fact that pharmacists cannot prescribe the pills -- unlike monoclonal antibody infusion treatments.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 17 Apr. 2022
  • It also should not be thought of as an alternative to effective treatments, such as some monoclonal antibodies or Paxlovid.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
  • First, using more [of the monoclonal-antibody treatment] Evusheld—which is a very, very effective tool for people who are immunocompromised.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 June 2022
  • The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, also found evidence that that BA.2 is resistant to sotrovimab, the monoclonal antibody used to treat omicron infections in people at high risk of severe covid-19 illness.
    — Andy Davis, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2022
  • One of Omicron’s most salient features is how resistant the variant family is to vaccines and most monoclonal antibodies.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022

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