RE: ivermectin is not a cure nor is it as good as the monoclonal therapies.
If you were in charge, what do you propose to do to make this monoclonal antibody available on an outpatient basis to everyone as soon as Covid symptoms develop? The goal of course is to avoid burdening hospitals.
That’s a tough query!
I’ll watch the response too.
Other Mabs are effective against other variants too btw.
If I were in charge every testing site would have monoclonal available. At this tome you have to get to an infusion center. Within 10 days is at prom onset.
I would also widely distributed the monoclonal to primary care physician offices and revise CPT codes to those doctors to allow reimbursement for the infusion procedure. Every doctors office has an MA or RN that could start an IV. Reimburse them for it.
What difference does it make if one or 15 centers get reimbursement. It’s just the patients would be more diluted through the system but the overall savings to health care would be enormous.
The issue currently issue is that we have monoclonals languishing on the shelf. It has not been well promoted. If the antivaxxer crowd really wanted to make inroads into the EUA which requires an efficacious treatment then they would be screaming at the top of their lungs for widespread distribution of these on target therapeutics instead of the weak ivermectin and discredited HCQ therapies.
The problem is the distribution and paperwork to get people to these therapies. As on anything reduce the bureaucracy and improve the delivery to the patient.