DeSantis: Additional monoclonal antibody treatment site to open in Jacksonville if feds provide supply

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Florida politician besides mentions plans to nonstop retired at-home COVID-19 tests

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a quality league Tuesday successful Jacksonville. (WJXT)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida is acceptable to unfastened further monoclonal antibody attraction sites, including different tract successful Jacksonville, if the authorities gets much proviso from the national government, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services had paused the shipments of the 2 main treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly aft immoderate grounds suggested the treatments are ineffective against the omicron variant, which is fueling a surge successful cases locally and crossed the country. At a quality league Tuesday greeting successful Jacksonville, DeSantis said that HHS reversed that determination implicit the weekend and is present releasing the Regeneron and Eli Lilly treatments, arsenic good arsenic a 3rd attraction by Sotrovimab, which has been found to beryllium much effectual against omicron.

“So we laid retired yesterday a petition to get an further 30,000 doses to the authorities of Florida. We would person sites up immediately, further sites successful the 3 South Florida counties that person the highest prevalence, we’d person 1 present successful Jacksonville, Central Florida, different parts of the Tampa Bay area, Southwest Florida, we’d beryllium capable to bash that precise quickly. We’re ready, we’re prepared, but they’re not sending america the doses,” DeSantis said. “And truthful we conscionable got the announcement from HHS, and Florida was allocated little than 12,000 doses. And to enactment that successful perspective, we were doing 4,500 a time astatine the summertime highest successful August.”

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it estimated that omicron accounted for astir 60% of caller cases successful the U.S. the erstwhile week, but DeSantis pointed retired that the authorities is inactive seeing cases of the delta variant — the different ascendant strain.

“We privation to marque definite we’re doing each that we tin to beryllium capable to assistance those,” helium said.

The COVID-19 antibody attraction tract already acceptable up successful Jacksonville had to trim the fig of appointments aft changing however it administers antibody treatments, a metropolis spokesperson told News4JAX past week.

The politician said Florida is prepared to unfastened the further state-run monoclonal antibody attraction sites wrong 24 to 48 hours aft the authorities receives much doses of the treatment.

DeSantis besides said Tuesday that the authorities volition beryllium sending retired immoderate at-home tests, starting with a absorption connected the aged population.

“The national authorities is not pursuing done connected its committedness to bash at-home tests. We are going to beryllium doing that, starting with the absorption connected the aged population,” DeSantis said. “We’ve sourced 1,500 requests crossed the authorities — including immoderate to Jacksonville — implicit the past six months, and arsenic much proviso travel in, we’ll bash it.”

President Joe Biden announced past month that the national authorities is buying fractional a cardinal COVID-19 accelerated trial kits and distributing them escaped of complaint to radical to usage astatine home. The first transportation is expected successful aboriginal January, but each 500 cardinal kits volition not get astatine the aforesaid clip and alternatively volition beryllium delivered successful batches.

DeSantis said helium believes the investigating needs to beryllium focused connected the radical that person objective symptoms.

“If your argumentation is unit investigating to travel, the CDC saying you person to get a antagonistic trial whitethorn beryllium to spell backmost to work, we won’t travel that successful Florida,” helium said “A batch of those tests are not a bully usage of testing.”

DeSantis’ quality league Tuesday was delayed and moved from 1 gathering to different astatine authorities offices connected North Davis Street aft community members upset implicit the governor’s handling of the pandemic and different issues refused to permission the country wherever the politician was acceptable to speak. Community activistic Ben Frazier ended up successful a tense speech with the governor’s unit and was yet enactment successful handcuffs, led from the gathering and placed successful a marked constabulary car.

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