Missing in the posted article is the fact that the vaccine costs $20 and a treatment with monoclonal antibodies costs $2100.
It’s important too that one vaccination protects untold others as well as the patient, but monoclonal antibodies protect the patient alone.
Also, it is much more complicated to administer the antibodies than to deliver a vaccine. The infusions take over an hour, and must involve monitoring afterward, not to mention the constant attention from nurses.
Someone was quoted as saying depending on monoclonal antibodies without getting vaccinated is like investing in car insurance without investing in brakes.
It is my feeling that these expensive treatments can bankrupt the health care system and possibly bankrupt the country if everyone who gets covid insists on them when ill and continues to avoid vaccination.
Then why are the majority of people getting the treatment vaccinated?
Here are the statistics the Florida government publicized at last week's press conference:
At our Broward site, 52% of the patients that have received treatment have been vaccinated, 69% of those over 60 that have received treatment at the Broward site had been vaccinated. In Miami Dade almost 60% of everybody that's been treated at the Tropical Park site has been vaccinated. And 73% of the patients treated at the state site in Tropical Park that are over the age of 60 have been vaccinated.
And the countries with the lowest vaccination rates have the lowest case rates and death rates. Those with the highest vaccination rates have the highest case & death rates.