A Network of Sharing: How Community Collaboration Allowed for Flexible and Timely Administration of Monoclonal Antibodies for COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 transitioned to an allocation per state by dictate by hospitalization rate in state by HHS. A nursing home needs to request doses needed for the next week by Monday. However, the unpredictable nature and small numbers of an individual nursing home’s outbreaks make accurate ordering difficult. In this series, we describe how a local collaboration among skilled nursing facilities in the Rochester, NY region allowed for rapid delivery of mAb doses to residents positive for or exposed to COVID-19.