Biden’s War on Red State COVID Patients
How many patients will die because of Joe’s political vendetta against GOP states?
by David Catron
September 19, 2021, 11:45 PM
For patients with moderate COVID-19 symptoms, monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatments have proven remarkably successful in decreasing hospitalization and death rates. Moreover, because states and health care providers could order mAb shipments directly from suppliers, they have been utilized to great effect in places that have experienced recent case spikes. In Florida, for example, the CDC indicates that new COVID deaths have plummeted from an August 26 peak of 356 to only 8 on September 17 (see graph below). Such success in a red state was obviously galling for the Biden administration, however, so the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was directed to seize the mAb supply ostensibly to achieve “equitable” distribution.
For the Biden administration, “equitable” means arbitrarily restricting red state access to mAb treatments and forbidding direct purchase by providers — all based on the false claim that places like Florida are monopolizing these therapies due to their dilatory vaccine rollouts. In reality, red state distribution of vaccines outpaced their blue counterparts when the jabs first became available. And, mendacious media reports notwithstanding, 70 percent of Florida’s residents have received at least one shot, including 88 percent of its largest-in-the-nation senior population. Even with the latest Delta variant spike, Florida has a lower Confirmed Case Fatality Rate (1.44%) than two-thirds of its counterparts.
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