Posted on 12/30/2021 4:44:33 PM PST by george76
Dr. Ron Elfenbein called the pause in some antibody treatments the 'height of bureaucratic arrogance'..
A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocation of those two antibody treatments last Thursday amid the rise of omicron, which the CDC had said days earlier was responsible for 73.2% of all new cases.
But the CDC backtracked on that alarming estimate this week, revising it down to just 22.5% for the week ending Dec. 18, more than a 50-point drop.
The delta variant, which Regeneron and Eli Lilly's treatments are effective against, was actually responsible for 77% of all new cases when the federal government stopped distributing those antibody drugs.
Now, one doctor says the government's massive miscalculation cost lives.
"I am as angry as I possibly can be about this," Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the medical director and CEO of FirstCall Medical Center in Gambrills, Maryland
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When the federal government stopped the allocation of Regeneron and Eli Lilly's drugs last week, the Maryland Department of Health sent a letter to doctors throughout the state that said "sites… have been directed to stop administering these therapeutics."
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It's just the height of bureaucratic arrogance, and it's just, it's horrible. I had to turn friends away, family, people call me, ‘Oh, my uncle has cancer. Can he get an infusion?’ I'm like, 'I cannot give you an infusion because I will lose my medical license.'"
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White House to him: You just try to send a Facebook greeting to your mom. Just try. Notice you’ve been canceled, pal. We have friends in social media high places.
They aren’t death panels.. they are evidence based medicine. In other words, we wrote 90 percent of your diagnostic and treatment test orders before we peeked in your room. After all... we have admission and revenue goals to meet. Those goal we split to make sure the working class pays for everyone else with higher bills, needless treatment and taxes. /rant.
Yes.
The policies and hysteria squander real medical treatments.
So all monoclonal infusions have stopped?
Hey - just what you see on the shelves, pal. [hat-tip to Terminator]
Earlier thread about this:
Florida surgeon general says Biden admin ‘actively preventing’ monoclonal antibody treatments:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4024982/posts
This makes me *so angry*!
Democrats - The party of death.
Their bloodlust is insatiable.
UN EFFING BELIEVABLE!! This is the worst incompetence by fedgov imaginable.
CDC says Omicron is 73% of all COVID cases and stops mAB infusions. Patients turned away because doctors would lose their licenses if they administered the life-saving mAB infusions. Then CDC says “Ooopsie...heh, heh, Omicron isn’t 73% of cases, it’s only 23%.”
How many people have died or will die because of their colossal incompetence?
What the hell harm would there have been letting doctors continue with the mAB infusions?
I was very suspicious that Omicron could jump from zero to 73% in a week or two. That never passed the smell test. Now this whole episode just stinks to high heaven.
The whole GD federal government should be fired for incompetence, malfeasance and corruption.
Why doesn’t Hogan go on tv and confront that administration? Why doesn’t he go to the companies directly and try to purchase the drugs?
That would what they call…..LEADERSHIP.
But at the end of the day he’s a Dem anyway.
Change my mind.
It’s not incompetence.
Their actions are 100% INTENTIONAL.
Thet are murdering people. Pure and simple.
“So all monoclonal infusions have stopped?”
Yep, because the Regenerion and Ely Lily mABs were found to be ineffective against Omicron. But those bastards either lied or are grossly incompetent because Omicron was widely broadcast as being 73% of infections when in reality it is only 23%.
This is CRIMINAL incompetence. People will die from that mistake.
I have the virus. Was sent by a doctor to ER to get infusion. They refused
That is EXACTLY what DeSantis did in Florida months ago!
Florida Begins Buying Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Doses Directly, September 25, 2021.
bttt
Remember stories like this when the government says, “It’s all for your health”.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo accused the Biden administration of “actively preventing the effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments”..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4024982/posts
Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be above ground today had it not been for Florida’s monoclonal antibody treatments. As it was, I was only down for two days.
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