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Gov. Ron DeSantis Office: Over Half of Those Seeking Lifesaving COVID-19 Treatment in South Florida Fully Vaccinated
Epoch Times ^
| 09/17/2021
| Jack Phillips
Posted on 09/17/2021 7:02:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office said that more than half of those who are seeking monoclonal antibody treatment in the south of Florida are “fully vaccinated” individuals amid supply issues.
“More than half the patients getting the monoclonal antibody treatment in south Florida are fully vaccinated,” DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw wrote in response to a comment on Twitter that suggested that only unvaccinated people are the reason why there is a significant demand for monoclonal antibodies.
Florida, she wrote hours earlier, “is above average in vaccination rate” and that “more than half of the patients in south Florida getting monoclonal antibody treatment are vaccinated and have breakthrough infections. Vaccinated or unvaccinated -Denying treatment to Covid patients is wrong.”
Monoclonal antibodies are engineered immune system proteins that boost an immune response against an infection.
Earlier this week, the White House and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to control the U.S. monoclonal antibody supply due to distribution issues. According to HHS’s website in a Sept. 13 update, the agency “will determine the weekly amount of mAb products each state and territory receives based on COVID-19 case burden and [monoclonal antibody treatment] utilization.”
A spokesperson for HHS told CNN that Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana are using 70 percent of the supply of the drug.
“Given this reality, we must work to ensure our supply of these life-saving therapies remains available for all states and territories, not just some,” the HHS spokesperson said, adding that a new system “will help maintain equitable distribution, both geographically and temporally, across the country … providing states and territories with consistent, fairly-distributed supply over the coming weeks.”
Before the change, states and hospitals could purchase the antibodies on their own without going through the federal government.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; breakthrough; chinavirus; chinavirustreatment; chinavirusvaccine; covid; covidstooge; covidstooges; covidvaccines; desantis; florida; mab; monoclonalantibodies; monoclonalantibody; rondesantis; vaccines
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To: blueplum
“who gets the remainder?”
Based on the Florida governor’s inquiry, as I noted the company has supplies available. Would you prefer the Company sit on these supplies and let people die just to build up a larger inventory in case the other states might decide they need more than they are currently ordering?
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:01:01 PM PDT
by
alternatives?
(The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
To: SeekAndFind
To: mac_truck
I did not think so but was hopeful. No one from doctors to truck drivers ever responds. I am not being combative - I can be reasoned out of being hesitant (since I reasoned myself to being hesitant.
Will somebody answer the simple question - why did we abandon long term safety studies for new medicines injected into you blood?
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:01:54 PM PDT
by
week 71
To: Gene Eric
I’ll take a pass on the breathless Breitbart reporting, but thanks for pointing out where all the angst is coming from.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:06:27 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Can you imagine if President Trump called a national speech from the White House, and then blasted Governor Andrew Cuomo saying "I'm running out of patience for you not using the Hospital Ship Mercy and the Javits Center field hospital, so I'm going to stop sending you ventilators in the name of "equity" to the other states?
-PJ
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:21:33 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: MileHi
Joe is redirecting to make it "equitable" to all 50 states. DeSantis said he would find other sources. So...no supression of therapeutics and not a shortage of monoclonals...just Biden placing a cap on the federal stock pile.
There are other sources, and if DeSantis isn't fazed by this, neither should you.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:22:12 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: All
Think Stalin and Ukraine.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:24:40 PM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: week 71
The long-term safety studies are being performed.
They take a long time.
Given the technology and double dosing, the side effects are likely to take up to ten weeks to show up.
I waited the ten weeks and asked vaccinated people questions during that time.
A few weeks later I got an invitation for my first Moderna shot, which I got almost a week later.
To: mac_truck
and if DeSantis isn't fazed by this Ah, but he is. He's pissed at the cheap shot by your buddy Joe at a red state that is making Fauci and your team look like the incompetent fools they are.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:34:34 PM PDT
by
MileHi
((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: week 71
why did we abandon long term safety studies for new medicines injected into you blood? I think the answer to that is there was a contagious virus (possibly a bio-weapon) that was rapidly spreading, killing people, and there was no time for long term studies.
-btw I happen to think the Trump administration did a great job with developing effective vaccines in less than a year, and have confidence the medicine works.
71
posted on
09/17/2021 9:37:20 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: SeekAndFind
To: Brian Griffin
Yeah - the tests are being performed. I am not ready to be a ‘ferret’ unless one points to science - not ‘the science’, on why they no longer need to do long term studies to show safety. I have asked multiple people and suddenly they go ghost.
I don’t want to fight on the issue - just want a logical reason why they no longer require long term safety tests. And will this no be the new way they approve all new drugs? Maybe no fast read disclaimers at the end of commercials for side effects on new drugs?
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:38:59 PM PDT
by
week 71
To: newnhdad
Think Stalin and Ukraine. It looks like Texas has been put in the Ukraine column now, and everyone else who disagrees with the Bidenistas. Feds going after doctors who recommend monoclonal treatment. The death grip tightens.
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To: MileHi
Is English a second language for you squirrel?
faze
fāz
transitive verb
To disrupt the composure of; disconcert. synonym: embarrass.
To cause to become disconcerted or disturbed.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:42:37 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: SeekAndFind
Well, I know of ONE “vax”d Texan who recently had china virus and had the monoclonals.
I know of two others (”vax”d) who had china virus and were luckily prescribed Ivermectin, EARLY, by an Urgent Care doc, after their own doc refused to prescribe anything for them. Just told them to go to ER if symptoms worsened.
Sickening.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:44:32 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
To: Karl Spooner
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:45:14 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
To: mac_truck
Agree - now why did they not do long term studies on a new medicine? Because of a bioweapon? You know that is not a satisfying answer. ALL the ferrets died in some studies in 2005 or so when testing mRNA vaccines. Once again - the new ones may work, but why no long term studies? If only 30% were to have the same fate everything in gone.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:45:15 PM PDT
by
week 71
To: alternatives?
Your argument is still Florida=centric. We want it we should have it first. Not saying that’s bad, I feel the same way in CA, but I imagine those in the other 48 states and assorted territories and protectorates feel the same way, too.
Otoh, headlines say hospitalizations are down in Fl with 60% of ICU beds avail as of yesterday. So if the wave is passing, where’s the fire?
I haven’t done the math on how long the supply they say they have would last given multiple infusion centers and liters used per day. I do know no company would expect overnight fast-food-in -3-minutes-nationwide level demand. Trump bought a few million doses as part of OpWS. If we’ve gone through that stockpile in this short a period of time, that’s a problem that we need to look at and figure out what to do. And if people are using it as a quasi-vaccination, instead of it being reserved for those most at risk, we need to look at that, too.
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posted on
09/17/2021 9:50:36 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
To: week 71
you do realize everyone taking monoclonals are defacto Phase 3 trialers?
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posted on
09/17/2021 10:03:27 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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