Department of Medicine

One of the things we insist on in our triage protocols is that the individual doctor at the bedside should not be the one making that decision, because that doctor may not know that there is a bed available in a hospital six doors away,” said Matthew Wynia, founder of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities. “So there really needs to be a committee that has good situational awareness of where the beds are, across the city or across the whole state.”

Adit Ginde, who is researching monoclonal antibodies at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, says awareness is a major problem: “Patients and the general public haven’t generally heard of this treatment.”

Adit Ginde, an emergency department physician at UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], described antibody treatments as one layer in overall protection against COVID-19. The vaccine reduces the probability that a person will be infected at all, or that a vaccinated person’s “breakthrough” infection will be severe.