CUSTODY WITHOUT GETTING CLOSE. FIRST WARNING, SOUTH FLORIDA. >>> LOCAL 10 NEWS STARTS IN
>>> WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS IN THE
PANDEMIC WITH ALL THE ON
COLONIAL ANTIBODY TREATMENT
SITES SHUT DOWN THIS FLORIDA.
>>> IT ANSWER AS COMES AFTER A
DECISION TO LIMIT VERSION.
WE’RE LIVE AT TRAP TROPICAL PARK
IN SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE.
>>> JOINING MY LIVE FROM
TROPICAL PARK BECAUSE THIS WAS
ONE OF THE AREAS WHERE YOU COULD
COME TO RECEIVE THAT MONOCOLONAL
ANTIBODY TREATMENT, ACTUALLY
GOING TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY SEW
WE CAN PUSH IN FOR A LIVE LOOK
AT THAT SIDE.
YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE THERE’S
SOMEBODY SITTING AT A TABLE IN
FRONT OF THE FRONT DOOR, HE WAS
EXPLAINING TO ME THAT THEY HAVE
HIM IN POSITION THERE IN CASE
NUB SHOWS UP TO RECEIVE THIS
TREATMENT, THEY CAN THEN SHARE
THE NEWS THAT THE FDA HAS
LIMITED THE USE OF A CERTAIN
MONOCOLONAL ANTIBODY TO INCLUDE
REGEN COV.
BECAUSE DATA SHOWS THE TREATMENT
ARE UNLIKELY TO BE ACTIVE
AGAINST THE OMICRON VARIANT,
WHICH IS CIRCULATING AT A VERY
HIGH EX-FROM A THROUGHOUT THE
UNITED STATES, THESE TREATMENTS
NOT AUTHORIZED FOR USE IN ANY
U.S. STATES, TERRITORIES OR
JURISDICTIONS AT THAT TIME.
SO THAT EXPLAIN WHY THESE SIDES
ARE CLOSED IMMEDIATELY AND RIGHT
NOW.
STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE
DESCRIBING THIS AND POSITIONING
THIS AS AN ABRUPT DECISION BUT
WE KNOW IF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
EXPERTS FOR WEEKS THEY HAVE BEEN
TELEGRAPHING AND SHARING
INFORMATION, DATA, STUDIES THAT
SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT IN
PARTICULAR IT WAS NOT PROVEN TO
BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST OMICRON,
AND AGAIN THAT IS THE VARIANT
THAT DATA SHOW IS THE MOST
PROMINENT RIGHT NOW.
YOU MAY REMEMBER JACKSON HEALTH
SYSTEM BACK IN DECEMBER FLAGGING
THAT THEY ARE FINDING THAT IT
WAS NOT EFFECTIVE AGAINST THIS
NEW VARIANT, AND THEN JUST IN
WITHIN THE LAST HALF HOUR, I
WANT YOU TOKING ALLOW AT THIS
WITH ME, I DID RECEIVE THIS FROM
THE COMPANY SAYING WE CAN
CONFIRM THAT ANTIBODIES DO NOT
WORK AGAINST THE OMICRON
VARIANT.
IN THE MEANTIME THIS MORNING
FLORIDA’S GOVERNOR REACTING TO
THE FDA’S DECISION TO AGAIN,
LIMIT CERTAIN BRAND OF
MONOCOLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENTS
BECAUSE OF THIS DATA THAT
SUGGESTS THAT IT’S NOT EFFECTIVE
AGAINST THE VARIANT THAT IS MOST
PROMINENT RIGHT NOW, THE OMICRON
VARIANT.
LET’S LISTEN IN.
>> EARLY THIS MORNING THOUSANDS
OF FLORIDA YES AND NONES WOKE UP
TOE NEWS THAT THEIR APPOINTMENTS
TO GET TREATMENT FOR COVID-19
INFECTION WERE CANCELED BY THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WHICH
REVOKED, OUT RIGHT REVOKE
AUTHORIZATION FOR TWO VERY
POPULAR MONOCOLONAL TREATMENTS
AND THAT WE’VE WORKED HARD TO
MAKE AVAILABLE TOE OUR RESIDENTS
HO NEEDED TREATMENT.
MIND YO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO
SEEK THIS TREATMENT ARE
OVERWHELMINGLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE
BEEN VACCINATED AND YET THEY’RE
STILL INFECTED AND MANY OF THEM
ARE HIGH RISK.
>>> IT’S INTERESTING TO HEAR
WHEN YOU LISTEN TO HIM THAT HE
REFERENCES THE SUMMERTIME, YOU
MAY REMEMBER THE SUMMER SURGE IS
REALLY LED BY THE DELTA VARIANT.
MANY SAY THAT MONOCOLONAL
ANTIBODY TREATMENT HAD PROVEN TO
BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST DELTA.
OF COURSE WHAT HAS CHANGED FROM
SUMMER UNTIL NOW IS THE RISE OF
THIS NEW OMICRON VARIANT AND
BASICALLY THE FDA SAYING THAT
ESSENTIALLY THE REG EX-N COHAVE
YOU AND OTHER MONOCOLONAL
ANTIBODY TREATMENT ARE NOT
EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE NEW
VARIANT.
ALL OF THAT SAID THE FDA DID
OUTLINE VARIOUS OTHER TREATMENTS
CAN THERAPIES THAT DATA SUGGESTS
IS EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE OMICRON
VARIANT AND YOU CAN FIND A