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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that he was “very, very concerned”
with Democrat President Joe Biden’s decision to restrict the
distribution of monoclonal antibodies to states amid a surge in demand
by states in the South.

“Just last week on September 9th, President Joe Biden said that his administration would be increasing shipments of monoclonal antibodies
in September by 50%, and yet on September 13th, HHS announced that it
was seizing control of the monoclonal antibody supply and that it would
control distribution, and then on September 14th, the announcement was
more than 50% of the monoclonal antibodies that had been used in
Florida were going to be reduced,” DeSantis said. “So this is a
dramatic reduction, and I’d say it’s doubly problematic because what
Shane Strum and folks in Tampa General and these other hospital systems
that have been doing this, they’re not getting it from the state.”

“What the HHS and the Biden administration is now doing is they’re
saying that all of the reduced amount will go to the state, and we’re responsible not only for sourcing our sites, which we’re happy to do,
but any infusion center, any provider, any hospital will have to come
through the state, and to just spring this on us starting next week,
we’re going to have to do that,” DeSantis continued. “There’s going to
be a huge disruption and patients are going to suffer as a result of
this.”

DeSantis said that he is going to “work like hell to make sure” that
Florida “can overcome the obstacles that HHS and the Biden
administration” are imposing on the state, adding that the treatment
has saved lives in the state.

“To just kind of pull the rug out from anyone a week after the
president himself said they were going to be increasing the
distributions by 50%, it’s very, very problematic,” DeSantis said.
“What I am doing though, is we’re going to try to cover the bases.”

DeSantis stated that he had a call yesterday with GlaxoSmithKline
executives and he thinks that Florida is going to be able to order
their new monoclonal antibody directly from the company so he won’t
have to deal with Biden’s restriction on the life-saving treatment.

WATCH:

Florida's @GovRonDeSantis confirming this– saying today he
will seek to buy monoclonal therapies directly from GSK,
circumventing the HHS process. pic.twitter.com/YX8MKBxAEd

— Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) September 16, 2021

Donald Trump Jr. responded to the news from the Biden administration by
saying that Biden was restricting the treatments as a form of
punishment against his political rivals.

“Americans will die because of Biden’s despicable decision to punish
his political enemies in red states by restricting their ability to
secure life-saving monoclonal antibody treatments for all that need
them,” Trump tweeted. “Their blood is directly on Joe’s hands.”

“Antibody treatments aren’t a substitute for vaccines But they have
prevented thousands of hospitalizations including in breakthrough
cases,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) added on Twitter. “Now in a move that
reeks of partisan payback against states like Florida, the Biden
administration is rationing these treatments.”

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