DeSantis demands COVID treatments deemed ineffective by FDA
Source: yahoo.com
Tue, January 25, 2022, 3:58 PM·7 min read
WASHINGTON Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is charging that the White House is withholding a COVID-19 treatment that could save lives in a state that has already lost 64,000 to the pandemic, even though medical experts have deemed the therapy ineffective against the variant currently dominant in the United States.
The White House has countered with a mix of mystification and frustration, pointing out that the treatment in question monoclonal antibodies, or MABs, manufactured by Regeneron has been shown to be ineffective against infection with Omicron, the variant that accounts for nearly all new infections across the United States. The Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn approval for monoclonal antibody treatments from Regeneron and Eli Lilly for treatment of Omicron-caused illness, but DeSantis has persisted in his demands.
Lets just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.
Weve seen, unfortunately, from the beginning, in our pandemic response, a range of steps or pushes that have been made through social media platforms, unfortunately from the mouths of elected officials, advocating for things that dont work even when we know things do work, Psaki said.
Monoclonal antibodies essentially provide the immune system with extra armaments against the coronavirus, though they are not as effective as the antibodies produced as a result of vaccination. There are also pills produced by Merck and Pfizer that are highly effective against severe or critical illness. Both remain effective against Omicron.
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During the Delta wave of the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the opening of a Regeneron clinic in Pembroke Pines. (Cindy Krischer Goodman/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,815 posts)the grift to end.
padah513
(2,500 posts)Wasn't trump still trying to promote hydroxychloroquine after investing a ton of money into it and learning that it didn't work?
Skittles
(153,147 posts)he is one sick piece of shit
LisaL
(44,973 posts)"The top donor to the Friends of Ron DeSantis political action committee is Ken Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel Advisors LLC. Since his run for governor in 2018, Griffin has donated $10.75 million to the PAC, including a $5 million donation in April."
https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/explainer-reports-on-florida-gov-ron-desantis-regeneron-explained/
J_William_Ryan
(1,752 posts)and others on the willfully ignorant right.
This rhetoric hostile to facts concerning the pandemic appeals to conservatives.
And conflicting with the Biden administration is likewise appealing to Republicans.
Phoenix61
(17,001 posts)get the vaccine. If he acknowledges they dont work, especially while the vaccines still do work, people might figure out hes a POS.
HAB911
(8,880 posts)will be his next big thing
twodogsbarking
(9,732 posts)IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)profit over people. Gotta lift up Regeneron stock prices more than using treatments that work. These brilliant business geniuses probably failed to invest in Moderna, Pfizer, etc.
Ray Bruns
(4,093 posts)tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)So let FL have the treatment, just no federal funds are allowed to be used to buy them.