DeSantis touts monoclonal antibody therapy as Florida hospitalizations for COVID decline BY DANIEL CHANG AND ANA CLAUDIA CHACIN UPDATED SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 6:13 PM
With new cases and hospitalizations for COVID-19 declining steadily in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday to extol the benefits of monoclonal antibodies as an effective treatment for the disease and to lambaste the White House for what DeSantis called an effort to “seize control” of the state’s access to the therapy.
DeSantis launched an effort in August to open state-run monoclonal antibody treatment sites across Florida, including one each in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Since then, Florida has opened 25 treatment sites statewide and as of Thursday, the governor said, more than 90,000 Floridians with COVID-19 have received the therapy free of charge at one of the locations.
“The results have been really positive,” DeSantis said. “We’ve seen really, really significant reductions in hospital admissions, in the hospital census, in visits to the emergency department for COVID-like illness.”
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