FDA Pulls Emergency Use Authorization for Drugs Used in Florida’s COVID Clinics Because No One Can Tell Them No – Opinion

One of the hallmarks of Florida’s response to the COVID “pandemic” has been that it not only encourages residents to get vaccinated, but it provides no-cost therapeutics via a network of clinics.

This strategy is popular and effective, but the Biden administration doesn’t like it. Back in September, the Biden administration preemptively took control of the distribution of the monoclonal antibodies used by Florida’s program and began throttling the number of doses available for distribution in Florida’s clinical network. Allegedly, this was to ensure that other states received a “fair share,” but it was hard to shake the feeling that the move was aimed at damaging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis more than having some larger public health purpose.

To underscore the hostility, on Monday the Food and Drug Administration pulled an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for primary monoclonal antibody use in Florida.

This is a direct result of @US_FDAThe abrupt removal of EUAs to two monoclonal antibodies has caused monoclonal antibody treatment locations to be shut down until further notice. You can find the full press release below. pic.twitter.com/RGeWTPwxCs

— Florida Dept. — Florida Dept. January 25, 2022

This guidance is the FDA’s only explanation.

Two key points are made about the guidance. First, the FDA has furnished no clinical data to substantiate its claim that the drugs used by Florida clinics are not effective against the “Omicron” variant of the virus. It is the same people that have repeatedly and persistently lied to me over the past two years, who all anyone has is an empty-headed assertion. Omicron’s dominant variant does not mean that Omicron has a significant number of users. However, Delta is still being used (or was it as last week). The FDA is now prohibited from prescribing drugs doctors are already familiar with, unless it holds the necessary power.

What is worse, according to the communications director of the Florida Department of Health, the drug the FDA is foisting off on Florida is…well…suboptimal.

You’re providing 21,000 doses of Molnupiravir.

Merck concluded that there wasn’t a statistically significant difference between placebo and Merck in the last study.

Who is the person giving away treatments with low clinical data? I’d say it’s @HHSGov. https://t.co/KkYO8oTLaV https://t.co/G1k1KPUZQ1

— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) January 25, 2022

DeSantis made this statement.

“Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “This indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.”

“Rather than giving Americans the option for various COVID treatments, the FDA and the Biden Administration issued their royal decree, taking away the very thing that is proven to reduce hospitalizations and save lives,” said Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez. “Monoclonal antibody treatments like Regeneron have had a positive impact for thousands of Floridians. For the CDC and FDA, which have been consistently inconsistent throughout the entire pandemic, to restrict treatment does nothing but put individuals at risk.”

“In our field of medicine, when someone comes to you seeking a treatment that could save their life, it is essential to have treatment options to ensure health care providers can make the best decisions for their patients,” said Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo. “The Federal Government has failed to adequately provide the United States with adequate outpatient treatment options for COVID-19. Now, they are scrambling to cover up a failure to deliver on a promise to ‘shut down the virus.’”

As I’ve said from the earliest days of the “pandemic,” there is no single policy imposed by the federal government that does not have obedience and population control as its objective.

The bottom line here is that Florida’s treatment regimen was not invented in DC. Bad because it was not developed in DC. It works so it should be broken.