Posted on 04/04/2022 8:40:12 AM PDT by lightman
President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered 14 additional states to stop using a COVID-19 treatment made by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said March 30 it has paused shipments of the drug, sotrovimab, to the states, bringing the total number of states that are no longer receiving doses to 22.
The states are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the midwest; Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state in the west; and Alaska and Hawaii.
Previously, eight states in the northeast U.S. stopped receiving shipments of sotrovimab.
The U.S. government purchased millions of doses in 2021 and January and distributed them weekly to states to provide to health care facilities.
Sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody, was granted emergency use authorization for treating patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are designated as high-risk for progressing to severe cases.
But emerging data suggest the drug does not work against BA.2, a subvariant of the Omicron virus variant, U.S. regulators say.
The shipments were halted due to the ruling, which came from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA decided that any region where BA.2 is pegged as causing a majority of COVID-19 cases can no longer administer sotrovimab.
According to federal data, the number of such regions is growing as BA.2 displaces other strains of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as SARS-CoV.2.
The virus causes COVID-19.
Collectively, the states and territories that can no longer administer the treatment, and to which shipments are paused, make up five regions. HHS has divided the United States into 10 regions.
Testing indicates that other COVID-19 treatments retain some benefit against BA.2, including Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill.
Bebtelovimab, another monoclonal that’s produced by Eli Lilly, also appears to work against the subvariant.
Glaxo and Vir said in a recent joint statement that they were aware of the FDA’s actions.
“GSK and Vir are preparing a package of data in support of a higher dose of sotrovimab for the Omicron BA.2 subvariant and will be sharing these data with regulatory and health authorities around the world for discussion,” they said.
The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel, meanwhile, said that it is no longer recommending the monoclonal for treatment in any region due to the FDA’s updates and “the increasing prevalence of the BA.2 subvariant across all regions.”
The panel, convened by the National Institutes of Health to recommend treatments for the disease, advises administration of paxlovid and Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir. In situations where neither are available, alternative therapies include bebtelovimab and Merck’s pill molnupiravir.
That drug must be highly effective if FedGov wants to cut it off to the states. They need to create the “Midterm Elections Variant” to shut things down again, at least in the Blue States. I’m telling ya, we’re going to need Nuremberg-style trials, with executions to match, when this is all over.
Is PA one of the eastern states cut-off?
The covid debacle has proven without a shadow of a doubt that the power of executive branches at all levels must be sharply curtailed in order to prevent a repeat offense by out of control government.
Meanwhile our current vaccines are basically worthless as stated by the Pfizer CEO!:
Pfizer CEO: Our Vaccines Offer ‘Limited, If Any Protection’
townhall.com ^ | 1/11/2022 0900 hrs et | Katie Pavlich
Posted on 1/11/2022, 10:03:58 AM by rktman
Speaking during remarks to a J.P. Morgan healthcare conference this week, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla openly stated current vaccines the company developed for Wuhan coronavirus offer “limited, if any” protection against contracting current variants of the disease. He then encouraged booster shots.
The statement from Bourla comes as the Biden administration continues to justify vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors and private businesses. The Supreme Court heard arguments about President Biden’s mandates for private companies and medical workers last week. A ruling is expected soon on the constitutionality of the mandates.
A number of people who have pointed out the waning efficacy of Pfizer’s vaccines, which Bourla touted last year as being “100 percent” effective against contracting or transmitting the virus, have been banned by social media companies.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com …
Omicron Makes Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Obsolete
“There is no evidence so far that vaccines are reducing infections from the fast-spreading variant. ... there have been mass Omicron outbreaks in heavily vaccinated populations, scientists are highly uncertain the existing vaccines can stop it from spreading. ... there should be sufficient evidence that the vaccine is efficacious in preventing serious infection and/or transmission.” For Omicron, there is as yet no such evidence. ...
The little data we have suggest the opposite. One preprint study found that after 30 days the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines no longer had any statistically significant positive effect against Omicron infection, and after 90 days, their effect went negative—i.e., vaccinated people were more susceptible to Omicron infection. Confirming this negative efficacy finding, data from Denmark and the Canadian province of Ontario indicate that vaccinated people have higher rates of Omicron infection than unvaccinated people.
Not the person who should be making the decision. Government corrupts healthcare as we have seen. The healthcare industry can make these decisions just fine without government sticking their corrupt nose in the middle of it.
We must include the unelected bureaucrats in agencies like EPA and BLM.
Congress must do it’s job writing clear, concise constitutional laws!
Government needs to be completely removed from all things medical. Everything. No more FDA. No more ObamaCare. No more NIH. No more VA Hospitals. No more anything. Everything government touches turns to shit.
But emerging data suggest the drug does not work against BA.2, a subvariant of the Omicron virus variant, U.S. regulators say.
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Yet we’re to believe the Covid vaxx designed for the original form of the virus is supposed to be effective even though the original strain of the virus is no longer present.
Yep. Next will be the death ticker back in the corner of the CNN screen. Hoping people will resist another lockdown. But yeah we knew there would have to be mail ins in order to pull this off. I wonder what kind of variant there will be for 2024. I just don’t see them being able to pull that off again. With the amount of evidence coming out and continues to pop up, people will be watching drop boxes and machines.
Follow the money and payoffs.
Health care and Retirement Planning and Education — these things are far too important to allow any government involvement. I think it should be a crime for a government employee to even attempt to “help” in these areas.
The Safety of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines: Vigilance Is Still Required
...which led us to suggest that their stimulation by the BNT162b2 vaccine could explain the outbreak of the lymphoma.
Mostly to red states(?)
Now they are just mocking us!
Whatever happened to the “ivermectin-like” medicine the gov was touting awhile back? Haven’t heard much more about it or how it is working or not working.
I have absolutely no idea how any rational person can come to the conclusion that this illegal administration wants Americans dead. Nope, not a clue.
There still needs to be accountability for the "gain of function" catastrophe that started all these health crises.
Why are the Feds in charge of pharmaceuticals?
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