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Maryland doctor says people are 'going to die' after Biden admin uses faulty data to snub antibody treatments

2021-12-30

[FOX] A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't effective against omicron, even though the delta variant, which the drugs are effective at treating, was still dominant at the time.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocation of those two antibody treatments last Thursday amid the rise of omicron, which the CDC had said days earlier was responsible for 73.2% of all new cases.

But the CDC backtracked on that alarming estimate this week, revising it down to just 22.5% for the week ending Dec. 18, more than a 50-point drop.

The delta variant, which Regeneron and Eli Lilly's treatments are effective against, was actually responsible for 77% of all new cases when the federal government stopped distributing those antibody drugs.

Now, one doctor says the government's massive miscalculation cost lives.

"I am as angry as I possibly can be about this," Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the medical director and CEO of FirstCall Medical Center in Gambrills, Maryland, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

Posted by:Besoeker

#3 Next up: "Aspirin - you don't need it, it's just a placebo."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-30 14:46

#2 F--king liars. Now they're claiming “vaccines were never supposed to stop spread, just reduce severity.”

This is after these lying assholes promised for MONTHS that the vaccines would absolutely positively stop spread, contagion, and provide herd immunity. They even doubled down on this claim by even changing the very definition of “herd immunity” to exclude natural immunity.

F--king liars -- as "Boriquagato" says, We have the receipts. Here they are, nicely compiled by boriquagato on his Substack

A sample of their f--king lies over the past year:
1. CDC head Walensky, March 29: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick and that it's not just in the clinical trials data but also in the real world data."
2. Fauci , May 15: "Vaccinated people become dead ends for the virus and cannot spread it”
3. Fauci, May 20: "If 70% of Americans get vaccinated we can avoid a Fall surge."
4. Biden, July 2021 town hall: "You're not going to get Covid if you get vaccinated."

And now the Dwarf is lying about what he and his minions repeated all year:

Fauci today Dec. 29 in CNBC:
TV Host: "Do you feel there was a communication error?"
Fauci: " well I think it was the question of what people interpreted..."

If they're not lying then they're just bloody incompetent f--ks at a minimum. Either way, they clearly don't know what the hell they're doing and are just making sh!t up as they go along.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-30 14:42

#1 It is untrue that the discontinued monoclonal antibodies are not effective. Some have found they are less effective but not without some effect. In addition, individual patients with positive RT-PCR tests and their prescribers have no way of knowing what variant they have -- the tests aren't set up that way. So the gubmint decides to shoot in the dark and take all of the less than perfect meds out of the pipeline despite these unknowns. Beyond stupid...

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-30 13:22

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