Posted on 12/22/2021 12:43:55 AM PST by blueplum
Federal supply of the one monoclonal antibody treatment that has proven effective is now "limited," with more doses expected in January, a Health and Human Services spokesperson said.
Major hospitals in the New York region say they have stopped using monoclonal antibody therapies because they have run out of the one treatment that appears to be effective against the omicron variant of the coronavirus, leaving doctors without a vital tool to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients.
New York University and Valley Health System in northern New Jersey notified doctors Sunday...
Meanwhile, Mount Sinai Health System in New York said it would stop offering monoclonal antibodies in its emergency departments....
...only one of the available antibodies — sotrovimab, made by GlaxoSmithKline — appears to be effective against the omicron variant, which accounts for the majority of new Covid cases in the U.S.
Hospitals in other parts of the country say they have very limited supplies of sotrovimab given how new it is, said Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials....
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
The article says the govt released it's remaining 55K doses, and 300K doses may be accessible next month but we have to get in line with other countries.
I thought monoclonals were given the first 10 days after onset of the virus in order to be effective and avoid hospitalization. Keeping them to treat severe patients would be wasting them on patients who cannot benefit. This sounds like the CDC, again!
Monoclonals have to be used before blood oxygen levels drop. The cutoff used to be 94%. Outcomes are reported to be worse than not using them if O2 has fallen too low.
People who require hospitalization have already fallen below the minimum. That’s why they aren’t given to the seriously ill. They have missed the window of opportunity.
Oh bull. There are FDA approved medicines (Hydrochloroquine and Ivermectin) that have been repurposed that kills Covid. Since the patents have expired, these drugs are cheap and there’s no MONEY in it for the pharmaceutical companies.
what the article is saying is, Regeneron, and the Eli Lilly one, cassie something, are not effective against Omi. So they’re pulling them.
(which is kind of wierd since Delta is still out there and Regen and ELilly both work against Delta)
And that “ sotrovimab” can still fight Omi, but it’s too limited in production right now for widespread availability because of unexpected demand.
right - things that didn’t work for wild virus, didn’t work for Delta, is going to magically work for Omi. Stop kidding yourself - how many ‘influencers’ lately who swore by kitchen remedies ran for monoclonals and didn’t care if it turned them polkadotted when death knocked on their door? Monoclonals give you the same odds as a vaccine against Delta but only temporary protection. If Omi takes it down to one monoclonal that’s effective, that’s not good news - for anyone.
If ‘cheap’ drugs are your criteria, the monoclonals and vaccines are free. But all drugs are made by pharm companies. The one you’re thinking of is probably made by Merck or Valaent Intl and rebranded. And they’ve made bank on the sales.
Merck developed Ivermectin in 1981 for River Blindness.
Fake news. Yawn.
“There are FDA approved medicines (Hydrochloroquine and Ivermectin) that have been repurposed that kills Covid.”
The HCQ claim comes from a 2005 PubMed paper on SARS-1. I posted a link to it here in spring 2020 some time before Trump ever mentioned HCQ. I figured his people must have found the same study.
The 2005 study was done in vitro on Green Monkey tissue. It killed SARS in the lab. But that kind of success doesn’t always translate to live humans. There was no chance to test it in vivo because SARS-1 had already died out.
When SARS-2 arrived, Covid-19, there were plenty of chances to test the effectiveness of HCQ in vivo. You can find the studies at PubMed. One case I recall in Vietnam, they used it as a prophylactic to see if it would protect nursing staff working directly with Covid patients. The nurses came down with Covid at the same rate as those not taking HCQ. It’s possible that it might help those who are not exposed to heavy viral loads like nurses are. If people want to try it they ought to be given the chance. It’s not a dangerous med. But it didn’t do what was hoped for it in 2005. It doesn’t cure Covid in live humans. And now there are effective therapeutics that do work, the MAbs being one group.
Sure, bluepill.
You should ask yourself what sociopathic vaccine billionaires would do to solve the problem of "climate change", Jan.
"Climate change" is a problem only because ratpeasants want energy and food.
Sure be nice if the ratpeasants had an OFF switch, hey?
> If ‘cheap’ drugs are your criteria, the monoclonals and vaccines are free.
Monclonals and vaccines are not free; we pay for them with our taxes. But monoclonal antibodies cost $2000+ per infusion, while vaccination probably cost around $20-30. Personally, I don’t have a problem with paying for MAB out of my own pocket. If I want it, I really think I should have to pay for it. But I’m guessing there are a lot of “conservatives” who think someone else should foot the bill to pay for their non-FDA approved monoclonal antibody therapy because they don’t want to get vaccinated due to some wackadoodle internet nonsense they’ve bought into.
Hint: it's not because they're unvaxxed.
I'd pony up for monoclonals. I pay for house insurance, don't I?
Yeah, problem is, I don’t believe the US has the capability to differentiate who has Delta and who has Omicron (etc.) if millions of cases need to be checked quickly.
So, the advantage of monoclonals (effective if given early) is now problematic because supplies are short and the flood of Omicron sufferers likely don’t really need monoclonals — but we don’t know who is who.
That last is a very interesting point.
bmp
Alex Berenson wonders why, if the Regenerons of the world don’t work vs Omicron, why aren’t vaccines pulled too?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-simplest-way-to-understand-the
Purebloods can donate. Friend of mine scored big bucks doing it. How about that - the vaxxed NEED the unvaxxed to survive.
| In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Hospitals in New York region say they've run out of antibody treatment for omicron variant, the_Watchman wrote: |
I thought monoclonals were given the first 10 days after onset of the virus in order to be effective and avoid hospitalization. Keeping them to treat severe patients would be wasting them on patients who cannot benefit. This sounds like the CDC, again! |
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