Florida shipped scarce antibody drug to private clinic.

[mia]

Florida sent scarce COVID-19 therapy to a private Broward clinic before Jackson Memorial


Florida shipped a scarce new COVID-19 monoclonal antibody drug to treat the most vulnerable of patients — those with cancer or organ transplants whose immune systems don’t respond well to a vaccine — to a private clinic in Broward County before sending the therapeutic to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, which runs the largest solid organ transplant center in the Southeastern United States and provides follow-up care to thousands of immuno-compromised patients.

In December, Florida’s health department shipped 264 doses of a drug called Evusheld to a limited liability company that was incorporated in March 2020 and advertises house calls and COVID-19 testing, vaccination and therapy on its website. But the state did not send a shipment to Jackson Memorial until January, when the hospital received a total of 192 doses, according to federal data.

The private clinic, iCare Mobile Medicine, received more Evusheld in the state’s first shipment than any other hospital or medical provider in Florida.

Nicholas Suite, a neurologist and medical director of iCare Mobile Medicine, did not respond to phone calls and an email from the Herald requesting an interview on Monday. But Suite told STAT News, which first reported on iCare’s shipment of Evusheld, that the therapeutics arrived at his office on Dec. 24, and that since announcing its availability the phone has not stopped ringing with requests.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article257194187.html#storylink=cpy

[Phoenix61]

1. DeSatan strikes again. nt

[mia]

3. Refuses to explain Covid drug distribution plan

Seems like a drug deal. I hope that the Miami Herald keeps investigating this.

[Phoenix61]

4. It's the same BS plan he used when they rolled

out the first vaccines. He’s been taking lessons from his hero, Donny boy.

[2naSalit]

2. He's just racking up those...

Crimes against humanity frequent flyer points.

[Phoenix61]

5. +1 nt

[Alexander Of Assyria]

24. Time for America to submit to the limited jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice?

World v. DeSantis, on the docket.

Apparently America has no answer to mass manslaughter if Governors of any one of the 50 territories the country is split up into…for some crazy reason..two Dakota’s?.. chooses to kill people by gross negligence and malice for personal gain…and also cause science sucks and politicians more important than scientists or any other living being.
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[2naSalit]

33. We should never...

have abstained from membership in the ICC.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. We keep telling you. Especially in Florida, Republicans find ways to divert public resources

to their own kind.

[BComplex]

31. They do that in every state, not just Florida. Republicans are the biggest white collar

crooks in the USA, bar none. Plus, they have the most pedophiles.

Republicans, on the whole, are scum.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Call Miami Vice. Oh that was TV, not the way Repuke reality works. Death Sentence strikes again.

[Tickle]

8. Icare mobile

Is an HMO that treats you at home so you don’t have to go to the DRs. They are partnered with regeneron for those who are Covid positive. You don’t have to have insurance for them to help you . It’s at no cost to the person

[gab13by13]

10. Yeah but, will they discriminate who gets the treatment?

Will it be the first person who calls for help? How close is this clinic to the Villages?

[Tickle]

19. First come

First serve is what they say. Icare mobile is big in Miami/ south beach but it reads like they are expanding

[gab13by13]

25. If you have cash

or if you are a registered Republican?

[gab13by13]

9. This is why GQPers hate single payer health care,

poor people get in line ahead of rich people. With an autocratic governor he can divert the medicine away from the poor and be saved for rich GQP donors. This is what is coming after the GQP gets control of government, it won't just ration monoclonal antibody.

[Tickle]

20. Icare mobile says first come first serve

If the article is correct you don’t need insurance to have them come to your house

[gab13by13]

26. I thought the monoclonal antibody had to be given in a hospital?

You may not need insurance but if you don't have the cash will they still come to your house?

[gab13by13]

11. Who funds this private company?

[mia]

16. "Its services often weren't covered by insurance, paid for instead with cash or credit card."

...The company had launched during the pandemic to make urgent-care house calls, dealing with issues like burns and bouts of diarrhea, so patients didn’t have to risk going to a hospital. Its services often weren’t covered by insurance, paid for instead with cash or credit card. The team then expanded into giving Covid-19 vaccines and therapies. Sometimes it was hired to set up a coronavirus testing table outside private parties, Suite said, including those of South Beach’s celebrity set.


“Whoever does not have a negative test does not go in,” Suite said. “So we’re kind of like the medical bouncers.”


Soon after the surprise delivery, the clinic announced it would also provide injections of Evusheld — and the phones have been ringing off the hook. The drug is free to patients and, while insurers may reimburse doctors for administering it, iCare’s priority was to get people injected and it is now working on the billing. Insurance is not a requirement, Suite said....


At iCare Mobile Medicine, the criteria for this prophylactic treatment are less stringent than those at Duke and other similar centers. Instead, they’re the more general ones the FDA laid out. If you’re immunocompromised, you don’t have Covid-19, and you live at least part of the year in Florida, Suite explained, then you can get Evusheld. “We’re not triaging people to say, ‘Well, you look really sick or you’re really old.’ We are going by the criteria that the government and the manufacturer have set forth and it really boils down to being first come, first served.”

https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/07/tiny-florida-company-gets-more-evusheld-than-major-hospitals/

[gab13by13]

18. One doctor, lol

What an obvious DeSatan scam again. I thought that the momoclonal antibody had to be given at a hospital?

Who can afford to pay for medical treatment out of pocket?

DeSatan is doing the same thing Jared did. He ships government bought drugs to a paper box private company which distributes the government paid for drugs to rich donors. When the article claims the treatment is paid for by cash, how much do you want to bet that those rich people getting house calls for monoclonal treatment pay nothing at all.

I repeat, isn't the monoclonal antibody supposed to be administered in a hospital? No way a building with one doctor qualifies as a hospital.

[Tickle]

21. They've partnered with regeneron

and the article makes it sound like someone is funding them. They stress if you don’t have insurance and are Covid positive they will come to you on a first come first serve basis. I’ve never heard of them I’m just reading about them now

[gab13by13]

27. It costs $3,000 for the monoclonal antibody treatment

and that's a bargain price. We are talking about the monoclonal antibody here so I must repeat my question, doesn't it have to be administered in a hospital? If so, why did a clinic with one doctor get a huge supply of it?

[Trueblue Texan]

12. Was that the clinic where DeSatan was being treated? nt

[gab13by13]

14. It sounds like it is an outpatient clinic.

[Tickle]

22. It's a mobile operation

They come to your house

[gab13by13]

28. Then why were they given a huge supply

of monoclonal antibody?

[Tickle]

30. How would I know

I went to read about them after the post and I shared what I read

[Botany]

13. Want to win 2022 in a landslide?

Never stop telling the public the truth and that is the republicans have decided to and have been
using C-19 as a weapon against the American people in order to help people like TFG, DeSantis,
Abbott, and Kushner (20 million missing doses of vaccine when Biden came into office)

Tell the people the truth and don't forget that about 30% of the American people will not care that
people died because of these actions but not to worry those votes are gone anyway.

[gab13by13]

15. Good thought but,

people here post right wing propaganda every day about how president Biden is failing.

[Botany]

17. I see "that stuff" and ever since last June much of media has been pushing that Biden is in ....

... trouble, his poor handling of Afghanistan is hurting him with the American people, and that
because Joe Manchin is blocking the BBB bill in order to protect the fossil fuel businesses and
so he can make a shit ton of money dooms the dems in 22 & 24 crap. But the truth shall make
you free Joe Biden is doing a great job and in my opinion the best President in my lifetime too.

The bottom line is people like DeSantis, Abbott, TFG, Fox News, and Cruz have been working 24/7
to keep the pandemic going for political purposes and we need to be putting that meme out non
stop.

[Mr. Ected]

23. And they sat on over a million test kits as well

As TFDG once said, less testing means less positive results. Good for the bean counters, not so much for the human beans.

[Midnight Writer]

29. Rick Scott must be proud of the new guy.

[highplainsdem]

32. GOPcare in action.