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Tennessee limiting monoclonal antibody treatment to unvaccinated residents
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ody-treatment-unvaccinated-residents-n1279740
In Tennessee, the patients first in line for the monoclonal antibody Covid-19 treatment are likely to be the ones who landed in the emergency room because they did not get vaccinated.
Extraordinary demand coupled with the federal government’s need to cap shipments of these scarce drugs has forced Tennessee health officials to recommend limiting the treatment to unvaccinated patients with the worst cases of Covid-19.
“What the state is doing is putting the highest risk patients first in line,” Dr. Karen Bloch of Vanderbilt University Medical Center said. “And not having a vaccine does place one at a higher risk of dying from Covid. So identifying those most at risk makes sense.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ody-treatment-unvaccinated-residents-n1279740
In Tennessee, the patients first in line for the monoclonal antibody Covid-19 treatment are likely to be the ones who landed in the emergency room because they did not get vaccinated.
Extraordinary demand coupled with the federal government’s need to cap shipments of these scarce drugs has forced Tennessee health officials to recommend limiting the treatment to unvaccinated patients with the worst cases of Covid-19.
“What the state is doing is putting the highest risk patients first in line,” Dr. Karen Bloch of Vanderbilt University Medical Center said. “And not having a vaccine does place one at a higher risk of dying from Covid. So identifying those most at risk makes sense.”