Florida launches antibody treatment effort to help hospitals

[libertybele]

Florida launches antibody treatment effort to help hospitals

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he is launching a rapid response unit to expand the use of monoclonal antibodies and relieve pressure at hospitals that continue to report a rise in COVID-19 patients.

“This is probably the best thing that we can do to reduce the number of people that require hospitalization,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville, noting vaccines were still encouraged and effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

The drugs are delivered intravenously or by injection and made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. It concentrates doses of lab-made antibodies to fight COVID-19 and are geared toward people who are at high risk. DeSantis mentioned good candidates were elderly people and those with chronic kidney disease, diabetes, morbid obesity and sickle cell.

DeSantis has previously said the treatment helped then-President Donald Trump when he was infected last fall.

The Republican governor said he believes this monoclonal antibody treatment is not as well known because it received federal emergency use authorization about the same time as the mRNA vaccines were being approved, and that the focus “rightfully” was on vaccines at the time. He said he felt it was important to increase its use along with vaccines saying they were “the most effective” yet seen for people who are already infected.

“I don’t think it’s an either-or,” he said. “We have people in society that are not vaccinated. We also have people who are vaccinated who are still testing positive. Either way, if you get in that situation, particularly in these high-risk categories, this should be your stop.”..............

https://www.winknews.com/2021/08/12/gov-desantis-holds-jacksonville-press-conference/

[Hoodat]

Recipients of the mRNA jab disqualify themselves as monoclonal antibody donors.  In order for this therapy to continue, it is important for Covid survivors to not get the jab.

[PeteS in CA]

Recipients of the mRNA jab disqualify themselves as monoclonal antibody donors.  In order for this therapy to continue, it is important for Covid survivors to not get the jab.

One cannot donate monoclonal antibodies (mabs), as these are lab created. Perhaps you have confused mab treatments with convalescent plasma treatments (convalescent plasma is, as the term suggests, plasma from a person who has recovered from the relevant disease).

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The monoclonal antibody (mab) treatment developed by AbCellera and distributed by Eli Lilly, bamlanivimab, received Emergency Use Authorization on November 9, 2020. Its use has since been modified so that it is used with another mab, etesevimab (developed by Junshi Biosciences and licensed by Eli Lilly).

The mab "cocktail" (two mabs in conjunction) developed by Regeneron is the treatment used with President Trump under "Compassionate Use". It received Emergency Use Authorization on November 21, 2020.

The MSM are devoted to Panic Porn, even after Trump left office. So good news, like successful treatments, gets banished to page ZZ-28 or the broadcast equivalent. And when Trump's name was associated with something ....... . Those are at least two reasons, IMO, mab treatments are not as well known as they should be.

On a more personal note, a family member who was early in the infection process received bamlanivimab in January and went on to recover at home.

More generally, because mab treatments are injections/infusions of antibodies, the antibodies persist for some time after an infection is defeated. But after some months the antibodies concentration does diminish, because, unlike with a vaccine, the antibodies are not produced by a recipient's immune system.

[Hoodat]

One cannot donate monoclonal antibodies (mabs), as these are lab created. Perhaps you have confused mab treatments with convalescent plasma treatments (convalescent plasma is, as the term suggests, plasma from a person who has recovered from the relevant disease).

I stand corrected.  Thanks.

[PeteS in CA]

I stand corrected.  Thanks.

You use a stand-up desk?