Texas Acquires COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies, Bypassing Biden HHS Limits: Governor

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott connected Monday announced his authorities has obtained its ain proviso of monoclonal antibodies, a benignant of attraction for COVID-19, successful a determination that bypasses the Biden administration’s limits.

“Texas has obtained its ain abstracted allocation of these monoclonal antibody treatments moving astir the limitations that President Biden has enactment connected america truthful that we volition beryllium capable to guarantee that anybody successful the authorities of Texas that wants entree to these peculiar treatments, that they volition beryllium capable to get it,” Abbott, a Republican, said during an interview with vigor big Dana Loesch.

The politician besides wrote connected Twitter that Texans who get the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and get a referral from a doc are eligible for monoclonal antibody treatment.

Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to ration COVID-19 attraction via monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies organisation sites antecedently could bid the attraction straight from manufacturers.

The national government-directed alteration present requires states to usage HHS arsenic a middleman to get the antibody treatments and places caps connected however galore each authorities tin obtain.

The Texas Department of State Health Services told quality outlets this week that it obtained immoderate 4,700 doses from cause manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. The Epoch Times has contacted the bureau for comment.

Previously, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced helium ordered thousands of doses of the attraction from GlaxoSmithKline aft HHS’s regularisation change. The politician past called connected the Biden medication to reconstruct Florida’s proviso of the drug.

“We should beryllium doing everything we tin to get patients monoclonal antibody treatments, not cutting allocations of attraction similar the Biden Administration has done,” helium said successful a connection issued past week. “Despite the cuts by the national government, we privation immoderate Floridians that could payment from this attraction to person entree to it. Florida is going to permission nary chromatic unturned erstwhile uncovering attraction for our state, and we are encouraged to person secured a shipment of monoclonal antibody treatments from GlaxoSmithKline.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) projected authorities that would forestall HHS from creating rules to block health attraction providers and hospitals from purchasing monoclonal antibody treatments.

But the White House said that the alteration is indispensable to marque definite states each crossed the state get entree to the treatment.

“Just 7 states are making up 70 percent of the orders. Our proviso is not unlimited, and we judge it should beryllium equitable crossed states crossed the country,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said earlier successful September.