{"id":1193470,"date":"2022-01-06T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193470"},"modified":"2022-01-06T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:50:40","slug":"handicapping-states-florida-republicans-call-out-biden-admin-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/handicapping-states-florida-republicans-call-out-biden-admin-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Handicapping States\u2019: Florida Republicans Call Out Biden Admin Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhandicapping-states-florida-republicans-call-out-biden-admin-monoclonal-antibody-treatment-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Members of the Florida Republican Congressional delegation sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday asking for him to change his policies regarding monoclonal antibody drugs, calling current policies \u201cshortsighted and burdensome.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have received calls from many constituents who are desperately trying to find monoclonal antibody treatment, with no luck. The Governor has announced that there is a shortage of supply because the Biden Administration has been keeping the state of Florida from ordering directly from the manufacturer,\u201d Congressman Gus Bilirakis <a href=\"https:\/\/bilirakis.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/bilirakis-dunn-rubio-scott-and-other-members-florida-delegation-urge-biden\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bilirakis.house.gov\/sites\/bilirakis.house.gov\/files\/wysiwyg_uploaded\/Letter-to-hhs--mab-drugs--follow-up.pdf\">letter<\/a> which, included Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, claimed that federal allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments was insufficient and that the government was making it more difficult for Florida to purchase necessary treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, HHS\u2019 decision to control the allocation and amount of mAbs a state or healthcare provider can receive, plus prohibiting these entities from ordering treatments directly from drug manufacturers, remains a serious concern,\u201d the legislators wrote. \u201cThis type of volatility and heavy-handed approach is handicapping states who seek to be flexible and innovative to meet the needs of its patients, such as Florida has done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They claimed that Biden\u2019s messaging on COVID-19 was out of line with the approach to making states dependent on the government for monoclonal antibody drugs. According to the letter, the centralization of the treatments was putting at risk patients in danger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, it is critical healthcare providers have flexibility and access to all authorized mAbs in order to prevent any shortages should hospitalizations begin to surge in the coming weeks,\u201d the letter says, \u201cThis artificial shortage is further exacerbated by the HHS\u2019 actions in September 2021 to prohibit states and healthcare providers from directly ordering mAbs from drug manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling the administration\u2019s policies \u201cburdensome\u201d and \u201cshortsighted,\u201d the Florida Republicans asked HHS to return power to the states to purchase their own monoclonal antibody treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bilirakis said that he would continue \u201cimploring\u201d the Biden administration to stop \u201crationing\u201d the treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has recently been forced to admit that pandemic response is best handled at the state level, and yet this contradictory policy is interfering with our state\u2019s ability to ensure appropriate access to treatment that Floridians want,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In late December, Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladopo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-surgeon-general-biden-admin-actively-preventing-the-effective-distribution-of-monoclonal-antibody-treatments-in-u-s\">accused<\/a> the Biden admin of \u201cactively preventing the effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sudden suspension of multiple monoclonal antibody therapy treatments from distribution to Florida removes a health care provider\u2019s ability to decide the best treatment options for their patients in this state,\u201d Ladopo said in a letter to Becerra. \u201cThis shortsightedness is especially evident given that the federal government effectively prohibited states from purchasing these monoclonal antibodies and serving their populations directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has been a major proponent of various COVID-19 treatments, including the use of monoclonal antibody treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Florida Republican Congressional delegation sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday asking for him to change his policies regarding monoclonal antibody drugs, calling current policies \u201cshortsighted and burdensome.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI have received calls from many constituents who are desperately trying to find monoclonal antibody treatment, with no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}