Coronavirus: Donald Trump is treated with an experimental treatment -

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Tested positive for the coronavirus, Donald Trump is treated by an experimental treatment, namely synthetic antibodies.

Sean Conley, the White House doctor, said he was injected with a dose of the experimental cocktail developed by biotech company Regeneron, which has shown encouraging preliminary results in clinical trials on a small number of patients. .

He received the highest dose, eight milligrams.

Donald Trump also takes zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and aspirin, according to his doctor.

Experts are examining the president and will make recommendations for "next steps," the doctor added.

Donald Trump suffers from fatigue, according to his doctor

“This afternoon, the president continues to suffer from fatigue but is in high spirits,” Sean Conley said in a statement.

He said Melania Trump, also infected, suffered from a "mild cough and headache".

But he did not give more details on Donald Trump's condition, beyond the fatigue experienced.

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Synthetic antibodies are made in laboratories and, when injected into a patient's body, work on the virus to neutralize it just as the immune system is supposed to do.

Last week, Regeneron announced that in a trial of 275 patients, the cocktail reduced the amount of virus in infected patients who were out of hospital and accelerated their recovery.

A triple cocktail using the same method showed its effectiveness against Ebola last year.

Regeneron has received more than $ 600 million from the US government to develop this treatment.

The Eli Lilly laboratory is also developing synthetic antibodies against Covid-19 and previously announced promising preliminary results.

But neither of the two treatments has yet received marketing authorization.

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