rare leading the way on covid from the beginning. you heard cheryl explain why she was moving to one. people are happy and free in red states, makes sense these leaders want to continue doing what they think is fast for their own constituents. here s how president biden said he would help them out. president biden: there is no federal solution. this gets all that the state level. my message is simple. if you need something, say something and we will have you back in any way we can. maybe he doesn t understand the definition of having someone s back because florida s surgeon general says they are standing in his way. in a letter to david becerra, the administration is actively preventing effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments. joining me as florida senator rick scott of the national republican senatorial committee. is that how biden has your state s back?
one s life around testing. without it, we re going to be sort of stuck in this same cycle. reporter: and so the timing of this is noteworthy. because right now, florida is seeing record-breaking numbers when it comes to the number of cases, especially given the drive from omicron. i mean, just last week, they had the highest numbers that they ve had since the pandemic even began. and so the governor has consistently said that early treatment is where his administration will put the focus, and they are saying that they need more monoclonal antibody treatments. treatments that have shown to reduce the risk for hospitalization and even deaths. he is saying that they are not getting enough from the federal government, demanding more from the federal government when it comes to those treatments. and that they are waiting on the federal government to open more sites for that early treatment. but noteworthy here is that in the first time he s had a press
for the shortage of monoclonal antibody treatments. if there s no excuse for the shortage of the tests that are needed and available that are necessary and available. the trump administration got three vaccines to market in record time. joe can t deliver enough basic tests two years into this pandemic after bragging about a foolproof plan to shut the virus down. well, now the federal government can t shut the virus down. where is operation warp speed for testing americans when they need a test? where is joe s operation warp speed for therapeutics and antibody treatments? where s joe s operation warp speed for studies on natural immunity? where s the warp speed on these two antiviral medicines that show us so much promise. another preventable and biden self-inflicted disaster just like the border, just like energy, just like the economy, just like foreign policy and pretty much every thing else.
make it more widely available around the world. and as doctor fauci said today in the white house briefing, it s not an easy drug to make. it s not something that can be ramped up too far greater capacity overnight. so, it s good news but mixed, it adds to our moratorium that we have that is reasonable, but no real home run drug. no real something there that is affordable, easy to take, easy to stockpile and available for people all over the world. there s also reporting in the new york times about challenges involving monoclonal antibody treatments that some of them don t seem to work against omicron? only one of them shows any efficacy. because, omicron is an escaped mutant, it has figured out how to escape the immune system so you throw a weapon at it that is an immune system weapon and
inexcusable. but now, two years into the pandemic, joe wants everyone to cut him a break because nobody saw this coming. joe, did you miss the delta variant like you missed the cultural phenomenon of let s go brandon. maybe my favorite joke, because cognitive moment. tonight we know that joe punted on a plan to get tests because of a bombshell report look at this from vanity fair. in october, a covid-19 testing experts well, they presented joe a federal plan, gave it white don t migrate to the biden administration that would ramp up the production of tests jn time for the holiday season. that plan was totally ignored by the biden white house. to make matters worse, the u.s. is now also experiencing a massive shortage of life-saving monoclonal antibody treatments. by the way, there s no shortage of that either. donald trump, we ve had two years now to build this up.