Statewide, there were 61 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including five on Maui. Maui Memorial Medical Center is now the only site on island to administer monoclonal antibody therapy (mAb) treatment, according to Maui Health.
battle against covid? we have masks, we have vaccines, obviously, which is the gold standard here in protecting ourselves, and we also have the monoclonal antibody therapy that elizabeth brought up, and now we have a pill. right, is to we have strategies, both non nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic, we have a way to keep people from being hospitalized, and we also have strategies once folks are in the hospital with steroids trying to keep them from needing icu management. so we have sort of a tiered layer now of approaches to either prevent you from getting ill or to keep you from getting super sick should you contract the virus. so it s a very, very big deal, enormous step forward. the news couldn t come at a better time with omicron, with the holidays. president biden says people who are fully vaccinated, and better