Hot Spots Where Covid Vaccination Lags Push Experimental Antibody Treatment

[Nevilledog]

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Bill Grueskin
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Half of the nation’s doses of monoclonal antibodies are going to Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama — states with some of the lowest vaccination rates.

“The cost of Regeneron infusions: $1,250 a dose. The costs of covid vaccination: about $20 a dose”

Hot Spots Where Covid Vaccination Lags Push Experimental Antibody Treatment
Governors in Southern states, amid a surge of delta-variant infections, are rushing to provide an experimental antibody cocktail therapy, even as they oppose measures like mask mandates and vaccine…
khn.org
4:37 AM · Aug 25, 2021

https://khn.org/news/article/monoclonal-antibody-therapy-mabs-versus-vaccination-conservative-states-covid-hotspots-florida-texas/


For months, Joelle Ruppert was among the millions of Americans who are covid vaccine holdouts. Her reluctance, she said, was not so much that she opposed the new vaccines but that she never felt “compelled” by the evidence supporting their experimental use.

Nonetheless, after she fell ill with covid last month, Ruppert, a Florida preschool teacher, found herself desperate to try an experimental product that promised to ease her symptoms: infusion with a potent laboratory-produced treatment known as monoclonal antibody therapy.

“I was in bed; I was feeling so badly, like the longest flu I ever had in my life,” said Ruppert, 54, of Gainesville. “I was, like, whatever, give me whatever.”

Ruppert and her husband, Michael, 61, who also contracted covid-19, are among thousands of people in the U.S. who in recent weeks have rushed to receive infusions of the powerful antibody cocktails shown to reduce hospitalizations by 70% when given promptly to high-risk patients.

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[in2herbs]

1. This treatment should not be covered by insurance. nt

[dawg]

2. Yes it should.

It should be free for the vaccinated and subject to the normal deductibles and copays for everyone else.

[joetheman]

3. Why should life-saving treatment go to anti-vaxx states and be covered by Insurance?

People who followed the guidelines won't have this available to them because use by anti-vaxxers in high demand AND their demand will likely drive up the price even more. Is this more white, MAGA privilege at the expense of the rest of us???

[lagomorph777]

4. Saw a low-post-count DUer pushing that today.

[SheltieLover]

5. Very profitable for qpukes

Should only be avail to fully vaxed, imo.

[roamer65]

8. +10000

[SheltieLover]

9. ..

[Iggo]

6. But they won't take it because it's experimental. Right?

Right?

[roamer65]

7. I hear the monoclonal antibody transfusions have chips.

[luckone]

10. Is it all about the money ? That would be sad .