{"id":766687,"date":"2021-09-16T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=766687"},"modified":"2021-09-16T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:58:37","slug":"desantis-hits-biden-for-cutting-supply-of-antibody-treatment-to-southern-states-for-equity-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-hits-biden-for-cutting-supply-of-antibody-treatment-to-southern-states-for-equity-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Hits Biden For Cutting Supply Of Antibody Treatment To Southern States For \u2018Equity\u2019 Purposes"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdesantis-hits-biden-for-cutting-supply-of-antibody-treatment-to-southern-states-for-equity-purposes%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=766687&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1332538961-scaled-e1631827560367.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that President Joe Biden is creating a \u201chuge disruption\u201d in his state\u2019s fight against COVID-19 by changing how the federal government distributes monoclonal antibody treatments (mAbs).<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it was transitioning from a direct-ordering system for mAbs to a \u201cstate\/territory-coordinated distribution system.\u201d The shift occurred after HHS determined that 70% of mAbs were being ordered by just seven states, which are primarily concentrated in the southern U.S. as it is hit hard by the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>Florida had been the leading recipient of mAbs prior to the shift, followed by Texas, Georgia and Mississippi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phe.gov\/emergency\/events\/COVID19\/investigation-MCM\/Bamlanivimab-etesevimab\/Pages\/Update-13Sept21.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to HHS data<\/a>. Now, rather than have treatment sites order directly from suppliers, weekly distribution amounts will be determined by HHS based on weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/covid-19-coronavirus-hospitalized-patients-va-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 hospitalization<\/a> and case numbers as well as inventory and usage rates, and state governments will be responsible for all distribution of mAbs they are supplied with.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1438585841882910730?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jen Psaki said Thursday<\/a> the administration is increasing its total distribution by 50% this month, but that states with lower vaccination rates \u201clike Florida, like Texas\u201d are hogging the supply: \u201cOur supply is not unlimited, and we believe it should be equitable across states across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.4726224783862\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">REPORTER: \u201cWhy is the Biden administration cutting\u201d antibody treatments in Florida?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a>: \u201cThat is not accurate\u2026 Our supply is not unlimited and we believe it should be equitable\u2026 We\u2019re not going to give a greater percentage to Florida over Oklahoma.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K8P41ZTnRc\">pic.twitter.com\/K8P41ZTnRc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1438585841882910730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/pfizer-fda-meeting-booster-shot-vaccine-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccination<\/a> rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/health\/covid-vaccine-states-distribution-doses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is higher<\/a> than the national average, at 55.6% versus a national rate of 54.2%. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/16\/long-covid-19-coronavirus-children-uk-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Long COVID-19\u2019 Is Incredibly Rare In Kids, New Data Shows)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regeneron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/15\/health\/monoclonal-antibody-treatment-distribution-change-contracts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced Tuesday<\/a> the Biden administration had agreed to purchase 1.4 million additional doses of mAbs from the company. According to emails provided by the DeSantis administration, HHS provided no indication there would be a limitation of supply prior to the announced policy shift.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 29, the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) and HHS agreed to a distribution plan of 50,000 doses of mAbs per week through Sept. 19. Florida was informed Tuesday that its supply for the week of Sep. 13 would be just under 31,000 doses, which the state says is less than half of its demand. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/ron-desantis-florida-government-agencies-faces-fines-mandate-covid-vaccines-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: DeSantis Says Florida Government Agencies Will Face Fines If They Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines For Employees)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very, very concerned with the Biden administration and the HHS\u2019s recent abrupt sudden announcement that they are going to dramatically cut the number of monoclonal antibodies that are going to be sent to the State of Florida,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/10\/ron-desantis-appeals-court-schools-mask-mandate-covid-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSantis<\/a> said at a press conference Thursday. \u201cJust last week on September 9th, president Joe Biden said that his administration would be increasing shipments of monoclonal antibodies in September by 50%, and yet on September 13th, HHS announced that it was seizing control of the monoclonal antibody supply and that it would control distribution. And then on September 14th, the announcement was more than 50% of the monoclonal antibodies that had been used in Florida were going to be reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the HHS and the Biden administration is now doing is they\u2019re saying that all of the reduced amount will go to the state, and we\u2019re responsible not only for sourcing our sites, which we\u2019re happy to do, but any infusion center, any provider, any hospital will have to come through the state and to just spring this on us starting next week, we\u2019re going to have to do that. There\u2019s going to be a huge disruption and patients are going to suffer as a result of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HHS did not respond to a request for comment prior to this publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that President Joe Biden is creating a \u201chuge disruption\u201d in his state\u2019s fight against COVID-19 by changing how the federal government distributes monoclonal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766687","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\/766687","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766687\/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=766687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}