Posted on 01/25/2022 9:05:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday rescinded its authorization for Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatments made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly after those treatments proved ineffective against the omicron variant, over a month after some hospitals voluntarily decided to stop offering the drugs.
Monoclonal antibody treatments can prevent serious illness or hospitalization among high-risk Covid-19 patients by reinforcing the body’s natural immune response. Though Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s treatments worked against previous variants of the virus, omicron’s mutation in a spike protein targeted by the treatments all but eliminated their effectiveness. Over a month prior to the FDA’s Monday announcement, hospitals such as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had voluntarily stopped offering the treatments.
Sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody treatment produced by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology, appears to still work against omicron, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
However, hospitals in New York, Maine, Texas and other states have struggled to maintain supplies of sotrovimab. In December 2021, the White House announced plans to ship about 300,000 sotrovimab doses to state and territorial health departments in January.
On January 11, GlaxoSmithKline announced that the federal government had agreed to purchase an additional 600,000 doses
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By this same logic, they should be pulling authorization for the vaccines too since they clearly don’t work on Omicron. But we won’t see that happen.
Stating the obvious from my chair, but in hindsight I don’t recall reading it spelled out so keenly. It needed to be done.
Well played and spot-on.
“...actions I believe are patently criminal...”
Agreed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4032002/posts?page=16#16
What it should clearly show all Americans, is that the government is not sincerely concerned about saving lives. Many will still not see this though, because too much of the nation are total idiots. Sadly, many of them have college degrees. So, that should further show that a college degree is not a reliable sign that people who hold them, are not idiots. However, even that will not be the reality. 😋
“I would add that on another thread it was noted that serious Delta can be diagnosed as a LRT (Lower Respiratory Tract) disease*, going after cell receptors in the lungs, while Omicron is primarily a URT (Upper Respiratory Tract) disease. Among other clinical diagnoses. So, it is NOT as if samples have to be sent out to be sequenced to make the diagnosis.”
Last night a close friend told my wife that a long time friend of theirs died during the weekend. Apparently, the man, who died had the Delta version and his wife had the Omicron crud.
He was in the hospital and checked out AMA, and she was at the end of her Omicrud with no fever and just a running nose and staying home.
He was a Marine, and apparently, he did not want to die in the hospital. He had all types of a other bad diseases and was 85+. His death was called due to ____________ fill in the blank.
In this past December, a 50 something son, my wife and I apparently had the Omnicrud with the URT. We were over it in a few days. He received his Moderna booster shot about a week before he got crud for over 10+ days. His crud was worse than our crud.
BTTT
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