This whole thing is so frustrating. Early on, the supplies of the monoclonal antibodies were so limited that it was hard to get unless you were old and sick.
I think that the supplies have loosened up now, but still there are people like this man who obviously would have benefited in hindsight from them during the viral phase of the disease, and is now on a ventilator. Terrible.
There are those on this board who (rightly) urge early use of Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 or Lilly’s bamlanivimab, but the FDA still requires that the patient have a positive antigen test, and be at high risk of progressing to more serious disease. So what are we left with? Stay home and you’ll probably get better on your own, which is true in the vast majority of cases, but not always, as we see here.
The entire public health response has been a complete disaster, and appears to be solely directed at whatever political gain the Democrat party can extract from the situation.
“Stay home and you’ll probably get better on your own”
We are seeing problems with patients ignoring all orders at home. They won’t take their meds or hydrate, no pronation. The family begs the hospital to take them so they will live.
I don’t understand people.
“Drink water or you will die”
“No. I don’t like water. “