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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Blasts FDA For Halting Drugs Ineffective On Omicron, HuffPost.

The FDA in the US has pulled the EUAs given to Regeneron & Eli-Lilley for their moniclonal antibody treatments. The Regeneron antibody treatment became famous when it was used to treat Trump when he contracted Covid. The EUAs were pulled as these treatements have no effectiveness against Omicron.

The FDA announcement was expected, as both drugmakers have said for weeks that the treatments are less able to target omicron because of its mutations. In updated drug labeling released Monday, the FDA said omicron appears 1,000-fold less vulnerable to Regeneron’s drug and nearly 3,000-fold less vulnerable to Lilly’s drug.

Federal officials said the FDA decision was supported by several independent studies, including a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Nature last month. In that study, a consortium of European researchers tested the ability of several antibody drugs to neutralize a live sample of the virus, concluding that Lilly and Regeneron’s antibodies “were inactive against omicron.”

The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician group, said it agreed with the FDA decision, issuing a statement that read: “Limiting the use of these treatments will help ensure patients receive the best available therapy.”

Bizarrely, Florida Governor Ron De Santis has railed against this decision, blaming Biden for 'medical authoritarianism' even though it was an FDA decision. Biden's spox said it was amazing that De Santis is advocating for patients to be able to use treatments that don't work. Not surprising really: if you're going to campaign against vaccines & masks which work, you need to have some miracle cure to take their place. HCQ & Ivermectin are fake treatments, and now treatments that used to work no longer work.

This exposes how ridiculous the Ivermectin push was. If Covid mutates and renders ineffective some treatments that were effective, how can Ivermectin shills argue that in vitro results using high concentrations of Ivermectin and flawed or fraudulent early studies are relevant now? It's not as though there was any real evidence that Ivermectin was effective against the original Covid strains but there's absolutely no evidence they work against Delta or Omicron. Flyboy used to argue that the way governments and vaccine makers adjusted vaccination programs and the vaccines themselves to maintain the effectiveness of vaccinations was somehow an admission of failure. But when we compare vaccines to treatments such as Regeneron's, we see that adaptability is a strength not a weakness when dealing with a mutating virus.