Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried Asks President Joe Biden To Delay Reductions To COVID-19 Treatments

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A time aft Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to “fight similar hell” to support Florida’s proviso of monoclonal antibody treatments for radical with COVID-19, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried asked President Joe Biden to clasp disconnected connected changing Florida’s allotment of the therapeutics.

Fried, who is seeking the Democratic information for politician successful 2022, asked for planned changes to the nationalist organisation of antibody drugs to beryllium delayed until the COVID-19 caseload is “further reduced” successful Florida.

“While national wellness officials person acceptable Florida’s allocation of attraction doses astatine 30,950, I americium acrophobic that much residents whitethorn request to avail themselves of this therapy than doses volition beryllium available, fixed our state’s agelong hold successful implementing this therapy,” Fried, Florida’s lone statewide elected Democrat, wrote successful a missive to the White House Friday.

“While we surely recognize the vexation astatine the inequitable organisation of this attraction to conscionable a fistful of states, I would respectfully inquire that clip beryllium extended earlier altering our existent dose allotments, giving our authorities clip to further trim COVID-19 cases from their caller peaks.”

A fistful of states, including Florida, person obtained the bulk of the monoclonal antibody treatments disposable frankincense far, according to White House officials. But the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is allocating a play organisation “based connected play reports of caller COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations successful summation to information connected inventories and use” submitted by states to the national government, bureau officials said this week.

Florida this week volition beryllium capped astatine receiving 27,850 doses of the monoclonal antibody attraction Regeneron and 3,100 doses of treatments developed by pharmaceutical institution Eli Lilly, according to national wellness officials.

Florida’s apportionment of treatments represents the largest stock of immoderate state.

DeSantis, who regularly locks horns with Biden’s medication connected COVID-19 mitigation strategies, said Thursday that the national authorities is putting up “obstacles” to the authorities receiving the drugs, which the politician has touted arsenic an effectual aboriginal attraction to combat the virus, and pledged to “fight similar hellhole to marque definite that our folks get what they need.”

Biden’s program to combat COVID-19 successful portion promises to summation the mean play gait of shipments of monoclonal antibody treatments by a further 50 percent successful September.

Fried’s missive to the White House Friday besides swiped astatine her governmental rival, saying that Floridians “have been victims of the DeSantis administration’s pandemic mismanagement and misinformation.”

According to the Florida Department of Health, 51,240 Floridians person died from COVID-19 since the onset of the microorganism past year.

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