Posted on 09/16/2021 8:34:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As we reported earlier, the Biden administration announced this week that they are effectively taking over the distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments used in the treatment of the Wuhan virus, a move that has understandably angered some southern state governors who have touted the benefits of its use in people who are in the early stages of battling the coronavirus, specifically in how it significantly reduces the chance of hospitalization.
A statement from Biden’s HHS department noted that the rationale behind the decision was to make distribution more “equitable” to states beyond those that are currently requesting the most quantities:
“HHS will determine the amount of product each state and territory receives on a weekly basis. State and territorial health departments will subsequently identify sites that will receive product and how much,” the spokesperson said. “This 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.”
Read their full statement here:
HHS has said the change back to a pre-vaccine distribution process is all about fairness. Officials laid out their rationale in a lengthy statement this morning saying: "This system will help maintain equitable distribution, both geographically and temporally, across the country"
pic.twitter.com/01nct5IRnu— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) September 16, 2021
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the “equitable” plan during today’s press briefing while denying treatment supplies were being cut for Florida:
REPORTER: "Why is the Biden administration cutting" antibody treatments in Florida?@PressSec: "That is not accurate… Our supply is not unlimited and we believe it should be equitable… We're not going to give a greater percentage to Florida over Oklahoma." pic.twitter.com/K8P41ZTnRc
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 16, 2021
Most notably, the DeSantis administration came out swinging after learning the news, with spokeswoman Christina Pushaw putting the administration on blast and countering critics who have bizarrely done an about-face on the need to do whatever is necessary to save people infected with the coronavirus:
Florida’s @GovRonDeSantis not happy with @POTUS’ decision to take over distribution of monoclonal antibodies. Statement from DeSantis press sec @ChristinaPushaw below.
pic.twitter.com/1ksYdwSvPG— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) September 15, 2021
As it turned out, Pushaw noting that DeSantis was “committed” to making sure his state’s residents could get the treatment “even if we can’t count on the Biden administration” was a preview of what was to come later, as DeSantis announced just a few hours ago that he was trying to work with another provider – GlaxoSmithKline – in hopes of being able to purchase the antibody treatments directly, doing an end-run around the Biden administration:
“What I am doing though, is we’re going to try to cover the bases. I had a call yesterday with GlaxoSmithKline executives about their new monoclonal antibody… Sotrovimab was given EUA, I believe in May. So the Eli Lily one, which is kind of now coming back, but the Regeneron, that was at the end of 2020. Sotrovimab was given EUA in May. The clinical data on that was even better than the clinical data on the Regeneron, 85% reduction in hospitalizations.
It is not approved for subcutaneous injection, so if we get it and we use it at our sites, we’d have to expand the amount of IV treatments that are available, which we’re going to be willing to do. Now they do not have a direct purchase agreement with the federal government, federal government’s bought all the Regeneron. They just upped it for another shipment. Honestly, that should have been done many months ago.
But we are not able to buy it directly from Regeneron. Given that, we do think we can potentially order sotrovimab and we will do that if we can. It has been — the clinical data’s great on it. And so we would be able to potentially use that to meet any of the shortfalls. This is something that, when you have something that has worked you should want to continue doing that.”
Watch:
Florida's @GovRonDeSantis confirming this– saying today he will seek to buy monoclonal therapies directly from GSK, circumventing the HHS process. pic.twitter.com/YX8MKBxAEd
— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) September 16, 2021
The war of words between the Biden administration and the DeSantis administration on vaccines and the antibody treatment distribution issue is especially fascinating when you consider the accusations from Biden’s team over the last several months that DeSantis has been playing politics with the virus and is putting lives at risk by pushing back on mask and vaccination mandates.
Yet here Biden goes more or less rationing the life-saving treatment southern states like Florida need under the guise of “equitable” distribution – just days after saying he was going to up shipments to states by 50%, proving that it’s them and not DeSantis who have been playing politics with the virus – and people’s lives – all along.
Flashback –>> Analysis: Media Attacks on Ron DeSantis Over Vaccines and Regeneron Are About One Thing Only
This is just more expensive big Pharma crap
They absolutely can’t stand silver ; Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin because theyre. free or very very expensive. Not controllable by big pharma
Ignore big pharma and you’ll be much better off
If any monoclonal antibody es are made in Florida, Desantis should should not allow them to leave his state.
Biden to Florida: not enough of you are dying
Biden is a POS!
Another Obamacare-vaccination mandate take over of health care and our entire lives.
Obama and his machine are behind this
Bigly. All liberals are POSs.
The goal here is to make the cases and deaths sky-rocket so that they can point at DeSantis and state his anti-mask policies are to blame.
Joe Biden is a mean, vindictive prick. What a douche move.
Thank God we have Desantis!!!
“Very very inexpensive”, I think you meant.
Biden is trying to make Desantis the main culprit for the disease. Biden’s denial of these drugs is meant to injure his political enemies. Desantis should quietly withhold these drugs from heavily democrat voting districts. After a week, he should loudly announce the total number of Biden’s additional victims.
Except big government banned or shadow banned (by keeping it legal but threatening doctors who prescribe and pharacists who provide with professional censure) all the cheap effective stuff. Funny how that works.
Thanks. Biden did the same here in Texas. I sent Governor Abbott a message asking him what he can do.
Federal government to cut Texas’ supply of Regeneron by half, MMH tightening criteria to conserve therapy for those most at risk
Federal government to cut Texas’ supply of Regeneron by half, MMH tightening criteria to conserve therapy for those most at
Dr. Aldo Calvo, Medical Director of Family Medicine at Broward Health, shows a Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion bag during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021 at the Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
MIDLAND, Texas (Nexstar)- Midland Memorial Hospital held a news conference Thursday to update the community on coronavirus hospitalizations in the Tall City. One critical piece of information the hospital spoke about is the monoclonal antibody availability, or lack thereof.
“Unfortunately, there’s a new development with regard to Regeneron,” said Chief Executive Officer Russell Meyers. “The federal government has recently reported that 70% of the Regeneron usage across the nation is happening in states that have low rates of vaccination, like Texas. In recognition of that, the federal government has claimed responsibility now for the distribution of Regeneron across the country with the intention of providing a more even distribution… reducing the percentage coming to the low vaccination states. Accordingly, here in the short term, Texas’ allocation has been cut in half. We don’t know when our next supply will be available.”
As of Thursday morning, MMH said it had only 100 doses of the therapy left for Midland patients. As such, the hospital will be tightening the criteria for those eligible to receive the treatment.
I called Abbott’s office, and suggested he make a statement about how he would fight back against what this regime is doing.... with withholding these monoclonals.
The assistant was very much in agreement.
Now, that DeSantis has come out with this....I’m sure Abbott will follow (again 😏).
Hopefully, so.
Yes Biden is a POS, but it's the people behind (e.g. Valerie Jarret and Susan Rice) him pulling his strings that are responsible.
This is the way you should handle the situation in Florida:
Unlike Joe Biden and the Democrats, we do not pick and choose those who will live and those who will die based on skin color. Withholding medicine based on skin color is, at most, one step removed from genocide.
Racism tends to lead, eventually, to this. While Americans embrace affirmative action for those who are under-represented, we insist on equal rights. The Democrats have never fully embrace this ideal. First, they favored slavery and segregation, and now they favor race-based quotas and set-asides, and race-based reparations. The allocation of medicine based on skin color is just the next step.
Hoping every day Biden kicks the bucket
Bkmk
The Governor is hitting back.
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