Driving down the number of deaths from virus cases….
And?
Giving another solid health choice for dealing with the virus …..
The treatment is a one time dose for those with the virus….
The federal government, which was already covering the cost of the treatment — currently about $2,100 per dose — has now taken over its distribution as well. For the coming weeks, the government has told states to expect scaled-back shipments because of the looming shortages.
With seven Southern states accounting for 70 percent of orders, the new process has unsettled some of their governors, who have made the antibody treatment central to their strategy for enduring a catastrophic wave of the Delta variant.
More supplies are on the way. The federal government bought 1.8 million more doses this week, expected to arrive in the fall and winter. But for now, some hospitals are uncertain of supplies, state health officials said, even as patients keep searching for doses.
“We have providers struggling to get the necessary product,” Kody Kinsley, who leads operations for North Carolina’s Covid-19 response, said in an interview. “I think what has happened is a classic logistics issue, where all of a sudden there’s much more demand.”
Amid a din of antivaccine falsehoods, monoclonal antibodies have become the rare coronavirus medicine to achieve near-universal acceptance. Championed by mainstream doctors and conservative radio hosts alike, the infusions have kept the country’s death toll — 2,000 per day and climbing — from soaring even higher….
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Patients and doctors alike overlooked the treatments during the wintertime surge of infections. But hospitals and health centers have now ramped up their offerings, transforming dental clinics, mobile units and auditoriums into infusion centers. In states like Texas, where elective surgeries have been postponed to make room for Covid-19 patients, operating room nurses have been enlisted to give infusions….
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Whereas any one vaccination protects untold others from exposure, a single infusion only helps a single patient. Infusions must be given within 10 days of symptoms; they are unhelpful to most hospitalized patients. And receiving the antibodies once does not keep people from becoming seriously ill if they catch the virus again later….
Note…
Th treatments cost several thousand dollar’s per dose (vaccines are much cheaper) and the Federal government has stepped in to control the supply to the states now due to demand…..
Alabama records more deaths than births for the first time in history.
Stupid people who won’t get vaccinated because freedumb, so they die.
Do we anyone who won’t be vaccinated? Do we know anyone that stupid?
Alabama is on pace to have significantly more COVID-19 deaths in 2021 than in 2020. My guess it will pass its 2020 total some time next month.
On a related note, Mississippi now has the highest per capita COVID-19 death rate in the country. About 1 out of every 319 people in Mississippi have now died from COVID-19.
“Stupid GOP Pol O’Day” — Miss. Gov. Tate Reeves with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union this morning:
TAPPER: And the Republican governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, joins me now.
Governor, thanks so much for joining us.
Take a listen to President Biden singling out your state in a speech on Thursday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BIDEN: In Mississippi, children are required to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, hepatitis B, polio, tetanus and more.
I proposed a requirement for COVID vaccines and the governor of that state calls it — quote — “a tyrannical-type move”?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
[09:20:06]
TAPPER: Now, Governor, I understand the distinction between the federal government imposing a mandate and state law.
But just stepping aside from the idea of President Biden imposing this, why are you and the Mississippi legislature willing to impose mandates for other vaccines, but not when it comes to the COVID vaccine that you yourself have gotten?
GOV. TATE REEVES (R-MS): Well, the Mississippi legislature has enacted laws, Jake — and, again, thanks for having me on today.
The Mississippi legislature has enacted laws for many years regarding vaccines of many types. It is unique to kids and their ability to go to our public schools. It’s not vaccines mandated in the workplace.
But the question here is not about what we do in Mississippi. It’s what this president is trying to impose upon the American worker. The president very much wants you and everyone else to believe that this is a fight between politicians.
The reality is, this is an attack by the president on hardworking Americans and hardworking Mississippians, who he wants to choose between getting a jab in their arm and their ability to feed their families. And I just believe that’s a false choice.
The president does not have the authority to do this. He knows he doesn’t have the authority to do this, in my opinion, but he wants to change the political narrative away from Afghanistan and away from the other issues that are driving his poll numbers into the ground and focus on anything, particularly a political fight, other than those issues.
TAPPER: Well, I mean, the virus has killed more than 660,000 Americans.
You’re calling the move tyrannical. Just so our viewers understand it, President Biden says he’s using a workplace safety law called the Occupation — Occupational Safety and Health Act to justify the mandate.
That law says that the government can impose an emergency order if it determines — quote — “that employees are exposed to great danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards, and that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger.”
I mean, if there ever were a reason to use this law, wouldn’t it be during a pandemic, with almost 2,000 Americans dying every day?
REEVES: Well, again, Jake, over 9,000 Mississippians have passed away with COVID, and every single one of them breaks my heart. It is — it is a very difficult situation that we, as Mississippians, and we, as Americans, find ourselves in.
But we also have to understand that, as we look forward, if this president has the ability to mandate vaccines, what powers do we not grant this president? What does he not have the ability to do?
And for my friends on the left, I just want to point something out. This should scare as you well. This should scare Democrats just as much as it scares Republicans, because the fact is, if we give unilateral authority by one individual to do anything that he wants to do, whether it’s a jab in the arm or anything else, then this country is in deep, deep trouble.
And that’s not something that I’m willing to stand by and allow him to do. Obviously, we have made it very clear that we are prepared to sue once we actually see the rule….
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2021-09-19/segment/01
Video (11 1/2 min.):
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/09/19/sotu-reeves-full-interview.cnn
Fox News Poll…
67% support mandatory mask wearing for students and teachers in schools.
66% say businesses should require face coverings
61% support vaccine mandates for teachers.
58% support Bidens vaccine mandate for federal government workers.
55% supports the mandates for business employees.
Explosive disputes over COVID-19 vaccine mandates are prompting concerns in the public health community that previously low-level opposition to other required vaccines could quickly gain traction.
Health experts say that rejecting routine vaccines might spark preventable public health crises, including the reemergence of outbreaks of diseases such as measles and mumps.
In addition, rising criticism of President Biden’s vaccine mandate from GOP governors is seen by some as giving more legitimacy and momentum to the anti-vaccine movement and its resistance to requiring shots of any kind, even for children and members of the military….
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And who is leading the charge ?
The Republican Party…
But remember?
They are uh “pro life,” which from their mouths is as Orwellian as “freedom” another one of their favorite words that has attained a whole new meaning .