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While there have been repeated reports about how treatment for covid19 has greatly improved, the new treatments available to people since March and April of this year, the death rate from the disease has never been higher.. A conversation I had with a friend today revealed that he thought the treatments available to President Trump, Ben Carson, Rudy Giuilani, and Chris Christie, which helped them to recuperate so completely and quickly, were available to the general public. They are not. If they were, regular Americans would not be dying like flies (over 3,000 deaths yesterday).
"The treatments — a monoclonal antibody developed by Eli Lilly and a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies developed by Regeneron — won emergency use authorization, or an E.U.A., from the Food and Drug Administration last month for outpatients with 'mild to moderate' disease who are at high risk for progressing to severe disease or for being hospitalized.
With cases soaring, the pool of potential patients is vast.
'One of the challenges is the E.U.A. criteria really are so broad, it could be half of the people with Covid could qualify, but there is clearly not enough,' said Erin Fox, the senior pharmacy director for University of Utah Health, who has helped her state draft criteria to determine who is eligible for the drugs. 'Unfortunately, that leaves each hospital or each state to develop their own rationing criteria.'"
www.nytimes.com
"The treatments — a monoclonal antibody developed by Eli Lilly and a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies developed by Regeneron — won emergency use authorization, or an E.U.A., from the Food and Drug Administration last month for outpatients with 'mild to moderate' disease who are at high risk for progressing to severe disease or for being hospitalized.
With cases soaring, the pool of potential patients is vast.
'One of the challenges is the E.U.A. criteria really are so broad, it could be half of the people with Covid could qualify, but there is clearly not enough,' said Erin Fox, the senior pharmacy director for University of Utah Health, who has helped her state draft criteria to determine who is eligible for the drugs. 'Unfortunately, that leaves each hospital or each state to develop their own rationing criteria.'"
Trump and Friends Got Coronavirus Care Many Others Couldn’t (Published 2020)
Rudolph W. Giuliani became the latest in President Trump’s inner circle to boast about the treatment he received for Covid-19, as hospitals across the country ration care.
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