Hospitalized with COVID-19, West slams vaccine mandates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. Fixing it AFTER he's infected still means his ignorant fat ass is taking up a hospital bed

that could be used by someone who got the vaccine, but needs a transplant or other critical care that requires an ICU. His wife is also taking up a hospital bed, but he could give a shit about her, otherwise he would have encouraged her to get the vaccine, even if he didn't.

The U.S. has millions and millions of doses of COVID vaccine, and an efficient system for distributing it for free. But these assholes are preventing it from getting into the arms of everyone who qualifies, just because of, you know, "Freedom!"

How many doses of monoclonal anti-bodies are there, and how much do they cost? Unlike the vaccine, which takes seconds to administer plus a 15 minute observation period, monoclonal antibody therapy is given through intravenous (IV) infusion. These infusions are given in an outpatient infusion center and require about an hour to administer, followed by an hour of observation and monitoring.

But don't confuse the GQP with the facts. As long as monoclonal infusions are available to DeSantis and his rich donors (at taxpayers' expense, of course), they can say to the rest of us, "I've got mine--fuck you!" Isn't that the Republican motto?

[LisaL]

3. As far as I can tell his wife was not hospitalized.

She got monoclonal antibody treatment and went home. She is in fact vaccinated.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. She's vaccinated, but spent time in the hospital.

From businessinsider.com:

West announced Saturday that he and his wife Angela had both tested positive for the coronavirus and had to be hospitalized.

While his wife was discharged over the weekend, West said he had to stay a bit longer because there was concern over his oxygen saturation levels. He said his wife was vaccinated, but he was not.

In a series of tweets, West said he and his wife underwent monoclonal antibody therapy, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating COVID-19.

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I made a mistake about his wife not being vaccinated, but not on both West and his wife being hospitalized.

More to the point, they availed themselves of monoclonal antibody therapy, which is both more complicated (a treatment consists of one hour of infusion followed by one hour of observation) and are not widely available to the general public as the free vaccines are.

[SunSeeker]

2. He is such an idiot.