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There is a lot of misdirection in the article. Regeneron is effective ateight months and counting, beating any vaccine out there https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211110/regeneron-says-8-month-covid-protection-from-antibody-drug.
None of the antibody treatments were available for “more than a year;” the eua’s were held back until long after the launch of the vaccines, though Trump got Regeneron in October 2020 and immediately started touting the “therapeutics that are coming.” The expense is minor compared to the benefit of cutting hospitalization by 80%. Even on a narrow cost per dose basis, Regeneron etc. are used only in persons who are ill and risk factor qualified ( age and BMI>25 would be the big ones) $1000/dose is not a lot more or less compared to $30/ shot on vaccines that will do recipients who are and will be in good health ( many already with naturally acquired immunity). Probably >80% and climbing as massive numbers of vaccines are now going to be wasted on children. So that if 30-40 people get the vaccine for every person who gets the infusion, the cost difference is neutralized. Then you get into the costs of enforcing the mandates, already huge and growing enormously, and I mean direct costs, not indirect , which are incalculable. And a huge advertising expense for the vaccine vs. 0.00 for the infusion thus far ( maybe they advertise it in FL, I haven’t been there). Sean Hannity is the only big media outlet that regularly mentions regeneron and other monoclonals ( when he pressed Rand Paul on it last night, Paul offered less than an informed answer). My jaw dropped when Tucker Carlson asked Alex Berenson about therapeutics and Berenson mentioned only “the coming Pfizer pill” and neglected or suppressed mentioning the infusions. All in all, if not a murderous plot, it has been a murderous outcome, that Fauci/Biden has offered so little support that most people, and I do ask them, have no idea of the infusions, and apparently many of their doctors are un-informed as well.