If you have COVID and you live in the Lake Charles area the Imperial Heath Urgent Care Center in Moss Bluff would like you to participate in a clinical trial for an experimental new treatment.
Facility Director Dr. Jason Morris says if you present at the urgent care with COVID-like symptoms you’ll be given a quick test and if positive asked to join the trial. If you do, you’ll be administered a treatment that Morris says has proven results.
“From that point, we have 72 hours to infuse the treatment for that particular patient,” says Morris.
The initial infusion will take about an hour, and you’ll be monitored for several hours afterward.
Morris says you’ll then be enrolled in an 85-day trial and asked to monitor your symptoms and be available to have blood work done on you.
“Also the patients are compensated 800 dollars for their participation because it is a little bit of a commitment,” says Morris.
Morris says several patients have already seen positive outcomes from the treatment at Imperial.
Morris says they want to really nail down how much of the treatment they need to administer for it to be effective.
“(We’re looking to see) what type of antibody response occurs from the treatment and see how long these antibodies actually stay around,” says Morris.
The study has already enrolled 20 of the 40 participants it is seeking.
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