Lenzilumab: Proven Effective COVID Treatment

According to a Dartmouth-Hitchcock press release, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) was one of 18 sites that conducted patient trials with lenzilumab and found this drug to be a safe, well-tolerated, and highly effective treatment against COVID-19.

Lenzilumab works by preventing and treating “cytokine storms,” an immune hyper-response, which is a life-threatening, systemic inflammatory response in the body triggered by the COVID-19 virus. Results of the trials showed that patients who received lenzilumab and other treatments (including steroids and/or remdesivir), had  greater relative likelihood of survival (54%), without the intervention of a ventilator. 

Humanigen, Inc., is the biopharmaceutical company that makes lenzilumab. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is soon expected to review lenzilumab for treatment of COVID-19.

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