(09-16-2021 05:52 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  At this point it's a given that we are under attack from our own damn government.

I mean they stole an election, they're frickin chicom plants. Why is anyone surprised by any of this

Waiting on the word

‘Some of Them Will Die’: Alabama Hit Hard by Monoclonal Antibody Rationing

Quote:The federal government’s sudden rationing of monoclonal antibody treatments, which keep Americans who get COVID-19 out of hospitals, is hitting Alabama hard, with some sites already running out of or projected to run out of supply soon.

The antibodies are highly successful at stemming the effects of COVID-19 when given to patients soon after they contract the disease, which is caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. But a huge jump in demand in recent weeks has left what some officials have described as a national shortage, triggering the federal government to intervene and start doling out what’s left.

Stringfellow and Regional Medical Center in Anniston didn’t have any of the antibodies left on Wednesday, according to Dr. Almena Free, vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer. Other facilities in Jefferson and Huntsville counties are struggling to source enough of the treatment, Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonary critical care physician in Montgomery, said a day later.

“Some entities are very low on product and some project running out of product over the weekend,” Dr. Karen Landers, a health officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health, told The Epoch Times in an email on Friday.

The shortage is hitting at a critical time. Intensive care unit capacity is “beyond full,” Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama’s health officer, told reporters in a Sept. 16 virtual briefing. That means there are more people in the state that require critical care than there are beds to take care of them.

COVID-19 isn’t entirely to blame, as many patients don’t have the disease. But the monoclonal antibody (mAb) shortage will likely contribute to the issue. Some 70 percent of patients who get the treatment soon after their diagnosis don’t need hospital care, according to clinical studies and experts like Thrasher.

“We were originally told [by the federal government] we were only going to get 70 percent of our allocation. That means 30 percent of people are not being treated, and some of them will die,” the doctor said.

“That is not acceptable. … This is not right, what the federal government’s doing,” he added.

The federal government has dominated the supply of monoclonal antibody treatments from Regeneron and Eli Lilly. Under the model in place until early this month, hospitals and other facilities could order directly from the Biden administration, which would send doses straight to the healthcare centers. States didn’t have to worry about costs, because the administration paid. The new model has the government ration the doses, deciding how much to give each state. The change comes as, according to experts, supply dwindles and new production isn’t enough to meet the booming need.

The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services have defended the change, saying it provides for a more “equitable” distribution.

“Our role as the government overseeing the entire country is to be equitable in how we distribute. We’re not going to give a greater percentage to Florida over Oklahoma,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday.

“Transitioning to a state/territory-coordinated distribution system gives health departments maximum flexibility to get mAbs where they are needed most,” an HHS spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.

Several options are in play for states that are facing a shortage. They can draw on existing supply, taking doses from sites that have plenty and sending them to others that don’t. Or they can reach out to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a United Kingdom-based company that hasn’t sold any of its product to the U.S. government.

Florida is the only state that has started the process of sourcing directly from GSK, according to health officials across the United States. Health officers in some states, such as Mississippi and Arkansas, said they had enough supply and didn’t project being affected by the distribution model switch. Others, like Texas and Alabama, are but aren’t pursuing the direct sourcing method.

Some suggested getting antibodies from GSK would prove too expensive.

“At this time we have not had any requests for it and it is quite costly,” a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health told The Epoch Times via email.

One course of treatment costs $2,100, a GSK spokesperson told The Epoch Times. That’s the same price per dose in Regeneron’s latest two contracts with the federal government. Eli Lilly’s is about the same.

The federal government has locked up hundreds of thousands of doses of the Regeneron and Eli Lilly medicines, and GSK’s is the only other monoclonal antibody treatment authorized for use at this time in the United States. U.S. drug regulators rejected an application for emergency use authorization for a fourth drug earlier this month.

Michigan and Alabama officials told The Epoch Times that hospitals and other providers can order directly from GSK if they wish. In the meantime, the states, like many others, are scrambling to try to redistribute supply to make sure there’s enough at each facility.

(09-16-2021 09:25 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  The vaccines are useless now. They are over a year obsolete. Just like the Flu shot. If the shot doesn't cover the strain of Covid you get exposed to you will get sick. There are multiple strains of Covid just like there are multiple strains of Flu

It's a super flu.

(09-18-2021 01:27 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(09-16-2021 05:52 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  At this point it's a given that we are under attack from our own damn government.

I mean they stole an election, they're frickin chicom plants. Why is anyone surprised by any of this

Waiting on the word

Why wait on the word? Charge the gates.

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Biden’s War on Red State COVID Patients

Quote:For patients with moderate COVID-19 symptoms, monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatments have proven remarkably successful in decreasing hospitalization and death rates. Moreover, because states and health care providers could order mAb shipments directly from suppliers, they have been utilized to great effect in places that have experienced recent case spikes. In Florida, for example, the CDC indicates that new COVID deaths have plummeted from an August 26 peak of 356 to only 8 on September 17 (see graph below). Such success in a red state was obviously galling for the Biden administration, however, so the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was directed to seize the mAb supply ostensibly to achieve “equitable” distribution.



For the Biden administration, “equitable” means arbitrarily restricting red state access to mAb treatments and forbidding direct purchase by providers — all based on the false claim that places like Florida are monopolizing these therapies due to their dilatory vaccine rollouts. In reality, red state distribution of vaccines outpaced their blue counterparts when the jabs first became available. And, mendacious media reports notwithstanding, 70 percent of Florida’s residents have received at least one shot, including 88 percent of its largest-in-the-nation senior population. Even with the latest Delta variant spike, Florida has a lower Confirmed Case Fatality Rate (1.44%) than two-thirds of its counterparts.

Florida’s GOP governor, Ron DeSantis, was clearly outraged that the Biden administration is willing to harm and even kill COVID patients for the sake of politics: “I will fight like hell to overcome Biden’s cruel decision to drastically reduce lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments for Floridians.… It’s wrong to penalize Florida for his partisan bitterness.” The Governor went on to point out the decision wasn’t merely bad for the health of Florida residents, it was yet another of our president’s trademark flip-flops. Biden himself quite recently pledged that he would increase the pace of mAb shipments by 50 percent. Gov. DeSantis disposed of that disingenuous promise as follows:

Just last week on September 9, President Joe Biden said that his administration would be increasing shipments of monoclonal antibodies in September, by 50 percent. And yet, on September 13, HHS announced that it was seizing control of the monoclonal antibody supply and it would control distribution. And then on September 14, the announcement was that more than 50 percent of the monoclonal antibodies that have been used in Florida were going to be reduced.… There’s going to be a huge disruption and patients are going to suffer as a result of this. So, we’re going to work like hell to overcome the obstacles that HHS and the Biden administration have put on us.

Part of the DeSantis plan to overcome these Biden administration obstacles is to work out an agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to purchase its monoclonal antibody treatment, Sotrovimab. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an Emergency Use Authorization for Sotrovimab in May. Unlike Regeneron, the mAb that Florida had relied upon until HHS seized it all last week, GSK is thus far free to make a deal with Gov. DeSantis for the distribution of Sotrovimab. However, the Biden administration has declared itself the final arbiter of “equitable distribution,” so it is entirely possible that HHS will swoop in and seize the Sotrovimab in order to dictate which states will receive it.

Florida is by no means the only target of the Biden administration’s mAb rationing scheme. It will also harm the residents of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. These states plus Florida, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, have recently been ordering 70 percent of the mAb doses. Never mind that they have been experiencing Delta variant spikes, the Biden administration insists on reducing their mAb shipments in the name of “equity.” It won’t surprise anyone familiar with Biden’s record on race, that his administration’s notion of equity will do the most harm in states with the highest number of Black residents. Breitbart’s Joel B. Pollak writes:

Texas, Georgia, and Florida are the three U.S. states with the largest number of black residents. Black residents are also a large proportion of residents in each of the affected states, according to data from the 2020 U.S. Census: Alabama (1.3 million – 25.8%); Florida (3.2 million – 15.1%); Georgia (3.3 million – 31.0%); Louisiana (1.5 million – 31.4%); Mississippi (1.1 million – 36.6%); Tennessee (1.1 million – 15.8%); Texas (3.6 million – 12.2%). The nationwide proportion of black residents is 12.4%. Together, these seven states comprise over 15 million black Americans.

Those inclined to write this off as tinfoil hat stuff should remember that the pandemic has disproportionately affected Black Americans. It is frequently claimed by Democrats and their media partners that southern states have been hit hard by the Delta variant because they are filled with MAGA types who refuse to be vaccinated. The reality is that the most vaccine-hesitant residents of these states are Black. But surely even Joe Biden is not so callous that he would condemn African-Americans to illness and even death for political purposes, right? Don’t forget, this is the guy who told Charlamagne tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”

Even if one disregards the racism charge as a conspiracy theory, it’s difficult to find a nonpartisan reason for the Biden administration’s decision to deprive tens of thousands of patients in seven states of monoclonal antibody treatments that have proven very successful in decreasing hospitalization and death rates pursuant to COVID-19. It is a cynical and politically driven policy that will harm Americans of all races. Are Biden and his lackeys this cruel? What would the Americans they left for dead in Afghanistan say?

(09-17-2021 12:32 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(09-16-2021 05:52 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  At this point it's a given that we are under attack from our own damn government.

FOR THE PAST 5.5 MOTHERTRUCKIN’ YEARS!!!!

yeah, I'm still pissed the fk off ... if there was ever a reason to despise politics, this is the shite any english/espanol habla dipshite should understand....

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ron-des...d/1050841/

Quote:Gov. DeSantis: Biden HHS Has 'Cornered the Entire Market' on Antibody Treatments

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday continued his direct challenge to President Joe Biden, calling on the White House to permit his state to provide monoclonal antibody treatments to COVID-19 patients.

At a news conference to hit Biden administration restrictions on Florida's ability to provide monoclonal antibody treatments, DeSantis offered up some stinging criticism. "We're past the point now where we're able to get it directly from any of these companies," DeSantis told the reporters. "The federal government has cornered the entire market. They basically took control of the supply in September."

The Biden administration has required states to order both Regeneron and Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody treatments through the Department of Health and Human Services to "help maintain equitable distribution, both geographically and temporally, across the country."

once again boys and gals, this is how the fk it works...

"if ya don't play by muh rules, I'm gonna squeeze and vise that choco starfish to the point where water won't flow as ya drown"

I need one of the lawyer folk to explain how this isn't the purest definition of coerced collusion between the fed + pharma....

@smashedAnotherMouseIntoWall

addendum: oh yeah, go get your get daily jab and lick it, suck it, and fk it .... I've inherited moron world... #costa