Posted on 09/21/2021 10:15:12 AM PDT by John Semmens
The Biden Administration has reduced the allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments to Florida and Texas. "HHS will determine the amount of product each state and territory receives on a weekly basis," a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
Presidential Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained that "the President is determined that the distribution of this drug must be equitable. States that are suing to overturn the President's mandate requiring employers to force their workers to get the jab are undermining the unifying goal of getting everyone vaccinated. Perhaps the reduced access to a life-saving therapy might be the shock therapy needed to change their minds."
"We know that Gov. DeSantis (R-Fla) thinks that because he took the initiative to deploy monoclonal therapy in his state he ought to be allowed to obtain the needed supplies," she observed. "But rewarding initiative is not equitable. It is the people who lack initiative that are in the most need of help. This has been a feature of our tax system and welfare distribution program for generations. The President assumes that the able and industrious can not only take care of themselves, but should also help take care of the unable and lazy."
DeSantis questioned the practicality of the so-called equity solution, saying "it doesn't make any sense to distribute the antibodies to states that aren't set up to use it. Remember during the early days of the pandemic when Gov. Cuomo (D-NY) made a big fuss about hospital beds and ventilators? Well, President Trump assisted him to obtain both. Still, Cuomo mismanaged the crisis. The beds and ventilators went underused. Cuomo sent COVID Patients into nursing homes where they infected and killed 15,000 vulnerable elderly residents."
DeSantis says he is now working with GlaxoSmithKline to get the monoclonal antibodies his state needs. Psaki pointed out that "one word from the President could kill this plan. COVID is a nationwide phenomenon. It needs a uniform nationwide strategy. DeSantis is in no position to provide or implement a uniform nationwide strategy. President Biden is. He will decide what everyone else can and can't do about COVID."
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