From Yahoo.com…
Health officials agree that if you are newly infected with COVID-19 and have an above-average risk of getting seriously ill, you should quickly seek treatment with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ monoclonal antibody therapy.
The federal government is covering the costs, some states have set up free infusion centers, and the antibody cocktail has been shown to reduce hospitalization rates by 70 percent for high-risk COVID-19 patients treated within 10 days.
“They are safe, they are free, they keep people out of the hospital and help keep them alive,” Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a senior adviser to the White House’s COVID-19 response team, said at an Aug. 12 White House briefing.
But the loudest promotion of Regeneron’s experimental treatment is coming from the governors of Texas and Florida, “where vaccinations lag and hospitalizations are soaring with Delta-variant infections” even as the governors “downplay vaccination and other measures that health officials say can prevent illness in the first place,” Kaiser Health News reports. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who received Regeneron’s lab-produced antibody cocktail earlier this month, on Wednesday banned government entities from requiring FDA-approved vaccinations.
