their hands. doctors, scientists, nurses,, patients. believe me, censorship is incredibly divisive in the united states today in the scientific community, you know, the high qualitysc doctors alwas cite the science. those who claim misinformation s never have any backup. soku the problem is those who ae hunting misinformation are the spreaders of misinformation. well, there are a lot ofom folks that i talked to some offline because they re afraideg of losing their privileges at various hospitals. you know, some of them dr.os mccullough, who say that they re very worried nowut about this talk of an american designed booster, a special booster just for omicron. they reic worried about the antibody b dependent enhancement and other issues that may come down the roadothe how concerned are you about this ? because it s gaining steam. we rete on the back end of the curve on your show. a few weeks ago i predicted
monoclonal antibody treatments, claiming that they re highlyng unlikely to be active against a omicron variant. well, first of all, how do we know there s zero deltaat in the entire population of covid patients if the fda reallyth wanted to be consistent here, they should then i guess also be questioning the use of vaccines against omicron. are dramatically less effective against the new variantt . t of course, you know, the impact of this has been immediateva and devastatingst. florida has been forced to shut down treatment sites acrosscr the state, denying access to thousands and thousands of patients that has understandably upset floridians and florida governor ron desantis who joins me now. governor, welcome to the show. nsoryour reaction to this deciso and proclamation by anthony fauci that it s 100% omicron now somo no more monoclonals.
who have been vaxxed and boosted are still gettinglo omicron now thankfully it looks like i m itself whether vaxxed or unvaxxed, if you re a fairly healthy person is very mild. but if that s their barometer gov thenib it kind of throws ino question the entire approach to omicronio if that s what they rh going to do here without anyat data to back it upgoin. they have, as you said, no data. soso what do you think is really s going on here? they really seem to have a bug you where about florida especially you bug them.he your handling of this bug them ? lot well, it s also if you lookur at this remdesivir it s peoplebo like fauci have talked aboutut being the standard of care for hospitalized patients. he there s notre great data on tha. they re notot revoking everyone for that . they re only focusing on these two monoclonal antibodies which have shown to be had tremendous success against delta. and yes, i do think that they
this that this is going to be a rapid tall peaked. but narrow outbreak and indeed it is. we re deeply on the back end world health organization hasn already put out a warning that future boosters could actually weaken the immune system. and by the time a vaccinenn for omicron could be ready and it definitely needs to be testedel in randomized trials, that variant is basically going to be extinct and we e could be on to new variants or hopefullyf at the end oful the pandemic. it was clear in our panel, by the way, that we we made it clear that the emergency phase of the epidemic is c closed.d. now we should move on to just treating the occasional high risk patient and then moving p o on with normal life. dr. mccullough, thank you . great to see you tonight .ea tand why did the bush b administration revoke the use speakinge of this entire covid issue of the emergency usehe authorization for saving monoclonal antibody treatments? florida has benefited greatlyr from these treatments and g
yeah, lura, first of all, that is all modeling. they don t know that for sure.ha this these monoclonals are highly effective againsty the delta variant to keep peoplele out of hospitals. we havepi been using themta with patients coming in during the omicron wave and we have a seen success anecdotally. no, we haven t run a clinical trial, but neither didbu the fda relying on one study which is an observational study. n it was not a clinical trial. it was not peer reviewed that said, the two monoclonals aren t effective against so omicron. it was done by a consultant for one of the rival drugg companies . nowyoca if you do clinical tria, maybe it will end up being the case. but man, that s very flimsy evidence to take this treatment away from people. and we had thousands of people in the queue at our treatmentle sites in florida, laura .ke and they all of a sudden wake up to saying that you re out of luck because of the whims ofwh the biden administration, what they reim doing is just fu