DeSantis bringing in 3,000 doses of new COVID-19 treatment after Biden administration diverts supply

TAMPA – Gov. Ron DeSantis connected Thursday announced the authorities is purchasing 3,000 doses of a caller monoclonal antibody attraction aft the Biden medication made the determination past week to bounds the fig of Regeneron doses received by Florida and different states.

DeSantis said the caller doses coming to the authorities volition beryllium sotrovimab, a single-dose monoclonal antibody manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline that was granted exigency usage authorization by the FDA successful May.

The proviso of Regeneron, which the authorities has utilized astatine 25 attraction sites crossed Florida, has dropped disconnected dramatically, according to DeSantis.

“The full Regeneron caller into the authorities of Florida volition beryllium 17,800. To enactment that successful perspective, we were doing conscionable astatine our authorities sites a mates of weeks agone implicit 30,000 treatments, that’s not adjacent counting what the hospitals are doing,” DeSantis said during a quality league successful Tampa.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told The Washington Post the national authorities plans to bounds the quantity of the attraction each authorities tin person aft conscionable 7 states including Florida utilized 70% of the country’s proviso of the treatment. The others are Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana.

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The national wellness bureau present is allocating a play organisation “based connected play reports of caller COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations successful summation to information connected inventories and use” submitted by states to the national government, HHS officials said.

DeSantis, a Republican, has been captious of the move. He has heavy promoted the attraction portion simultaneously warring preventative measures similar disguise mandates and vaccine requirements.

He said the authorities whitethorn beryllium forced to adjacent immoderate of its attraction sites and further restrict who is capable to person the treatment.

“Those are going to beryllium decisions that volition beryllium forced upon america to do, and I anticipation it doesn’t travel to that but we were upset astatine the archetypal chopped but past this adjacent week is chopped adjacent more. And this is simply a melodramatic reduction, marque nary mistake astir it,” DeSantis said, adding determination is inactive precocious request for the COVID-19 treatment.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic campaigner for governor, besides wrote a missive to the Biden administration, calling connected the national authorities not to bounds Florida’s entree to Regeneron.

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