Covid to be recommended by the global health authority, which added it to its "living WHO guideline" on drugs for Covid-19. In July, WHO gave the nod to a class of drugs that act to suppress a dangerous overreaction of the immune system to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid.
These medicines work well in tandem with corticosteroids, which were first recommended by WHO for use in Covid patients in September 2020.
The Regeneron cocktail of synthetic antibodies -- casirivimab and imdevimab -- has been found to reduce the risk of hospitalisation for unvaccinated, elderly or immunosuppressed patients with Covid, according to three clinical trials that have yet to be peer reviewed, according to the BMJ.