Please be ready to call multiple treatment centers for the most vulnerable persons in your life. My wife got COVID-19 in late December 2021 and her symptoms initially got better, then worse, on the eighth day. I had already called six infusion centers by the fourth day and there were no appointments or inventory at five, and the last one did have them, but was five hours away and they said her symptoms with few comorbidities would very likely result in refusal, upon arrival.
Please be prepared with all possible proven supplements and medicines, and do go to an urgent care, if symptoms start to pick back up. You may benefit from Azithromycin, Decadron/Methylprednisone, and Albuterol, in those later days, as my wife did.
I do want to thank Gas_dr for his input on this!
Azithromycin is the only thing I do not have
Perhaps monoclonal antibody dispensing could be based on blood oxygen saturation levels taken after sitting or lying down for five minutes.
I signed up for MyFreeDoctor yesterday morning and in the afternoon got a call from a nearby pharmacy that I had selected from their list. They are getting Ivermectin, but a supply now costs over $400, triple a year ago. The woman said that most patients are getting BOTH Ivermectin AND Hydroxychloroquine. Dr. George Fareed strongly recommends a combination of both.
A year ago, I decided to find an infusion center that would administer mAb treatments. It was almost impossible. In the past year, multiple web sites have come on line that now make it a lot easier to find them, but you still need to call to see if they have the medicine in stock.
Did you take your wife to the sixth infusion center? Did she get the treatment?
On January 24, the FDA amended the EUA for bamlanivimab and etesevimab (Eli Lilly, these are administered together) and REGEN-COV (Regeneron, combination of casirivimab and imdevimab), limiting their use to only when the patient has been exposed to or infected with a COVID variant known to be treatable with these drugs.
So you have to get a COVID diagnosis that does the genetic sequencing to determine what variant you have. Isn’t that a very high hurdle? I understand patients are not told which variant they have.
The NIH authorized Sotrovimab by GlaxoSmithKline for the Omicron variant. There are huge supply problems. Why in the world doesn’t GSK do an urgent license of their product to Eli Lilly and Regeneron and have them make it? The three of them could agree to cross-license products for future variants. There is huge demand right now and they all could make a lot of money via this business approach. Why doesn’t the Biden administration tell them to get together and cross-license?
Also How many doctors don’t know about them? From my contacts many people in at risk population have not been offered the treatment by their doctors. The advertising budget for vaccines was enormous, I never saw an ad for monoclonals on any website, billboard or broadcast medium. Further, DeSantis forcefully rebutted the CDC/FDA withdrawal of the Regeneron and Lilly products at the advent of Omicron as there was no way to confirm that any individual did not have Delta, as well as very limited in vitro assessment was what they based the withdrawal on. If in vitro alone is evidence, bring on HCQ, ivermectin and whatever else, though plenty of clinical evidence to back their use as well.
I had it as well. My doc said day 8 is the pivotal day, you get better or worse. I was able to obtain the monoclonal antibodies thanks to my sister who spent a day working on it. I’m 69 with cancer. Was important I receive those.
“monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)—a highly effective treatment for the disease” contains antibodies from cloned (cancerous) fetal tissue cell line and chimeric mouse/human antibodies.
EXPERIMENTAL (EAU) treatment.
YOU are the “experiment”.
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