I perused the FDA website and cannot find ANY clinical data or efficacy testing to back-up this "ineffectiveness" claim. However, in the EUA memo for REGEN-COV® the Efficacy was about 70%. For the shots, the FDA's minimum threshold was 50% Efficacy. So let's just assume, for now, REGEN-COV® fell below 50%, and that is grounds for removing the EUA.
Let's visit the shots, and see how THEY do in PREVENTING (prevention was the basis of granting the EUA...not lessened symptoms, or keeping you out of the hospital or ground) Omicron: The 2-dose VE against omicron infection was 30.4% (5.0%-49.0%) at 14-90 days and declined quickly to 15.2% (0.0%-30.7%) at 91-180 days and 0.0% after 180 days.
Now, riddle me this, Batman: how is it that the shots haven't had their EUA revoked despite proven and published "ineffectiveness" against Omicron, but REGEN-COV®'s undocumented "ineffectiveness" gets it yanked?
The riddle is answered by Grampa Dave - none of this is about health.
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.