A Promising COVID-19 Treatment Is Going Unused - and Doctors Want Patients to Be Aware

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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/a-promising-covid-19-treatment-is-going-unused-and-doctors-want-patients-to-be-aware/2367519/?amp

Memorial Hospital Pembroke still has hundreds of doses on hand for eligible patients

By Alyssa Hyman • Published January 22, 2021 • Updated on January 23, 2021 at 8:17 am

“Everything points to a life-saving drug,” said David Starnes, the Chief Nursing Officer at Memorial Hospital Pembroke.

Since early December, Memorial Hospital Pembroke has been offering monoclonal antibody treatments to patients who qualify under the Emergency Use Authorization. It’s the same treatment former President Donald Trump received in October.

Memorial has both the Eli Lilly, or Casirivimab and Imdevimab, by Regeneron on hand. Of Memorial’s 270 patients who have received the infusion so far, only four have ended up needing hospitalization.

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[TexasTowelie]

1. Available at what cost? nt

[Silver Gaia]

2. THIS.

[Hekate]

3. Precisely

[Tanuki]

5. It is available at no cost to Medicare beneficiaries.

[TexasTowelie]

6. At least someone is getting the treatment without incurring an out-of-pocket cost.

It would hope that it is available at no cost to the general population also whether they have private insurance or no insurance at all.

[Celerity]

7. +1000

[roamer65]

4. You will have to make it through triage to get it.

That’s the first hurdle. Next one is will insurance cover it.

[mitch96]

8. I worked for Memorial Health Care system for over 20 years.. They try to do things right

and are always trying to improve the healthcare of the people they cover. They also take care of their employees health, well being and pay a very fair living wage. After my time there I believe they try to do the right thing.
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[Footay]

9. The requirements

The real message is that there is a very narrow window to use this treatment, and a lot of people miss the window because they don't know about it or don't go to the dr. or ER in time.