The drugs are manufactured by Eli Lilly and Regeneron, respectively.
Therefore, the treatments arent to be used at all.
Early research published in December suggested they would be ineffective against Omicron.
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Were operating on a guess.
While laboratory-based genomic sequencing tests can determine COVID-19 variants, those results are not consumer-facing.
Theyre only used for public health surveillance purposes.
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Additionally, new drugs are in development designed to target future strains of COVID-19.
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