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  • US - Florida Agriculture Commissioner Asks Biden To Delay Reductions To COVID-19 Treatments - September 19, 2021

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    Fried Asks Biden To Delay Reductions To COVID-19 Treatments
    WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By News Service of Florida
    Published September 19, 2021 at 12:00 PM EDT

    Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried asked for planned changes to the national distribution of antibody drugs to be delayed until the COVID-19 caseload is “further reduced” in Florida.

    A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged to “fight like hell” to maintain Florida’s supply of monoclonal antibody treatments for people with COVID-19, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried asked President Joe Biden to hold off on changing Florida’s allotment of the therapeutics.
    Fried, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022, asked for planned changes to the national distribution of antibody drugs to be delayed until the COVID-19 caseload is “further reduced” in Florida.
    “While federal health officials have set Florida’s allocation of treatment doses at 30,950, I am concerned that more residents may need to avail themselves of this therapy than doses will be available, given our state’s long delay in implementing this therapy,” Fried, Florida's only statewide elected Democrat, wrote in a letter to the White House Friday...
    Last edited by sharon sanders; September 21, 2021, 05:53 AM.
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