Florida Surgeon General says Biden admin “actively preventing” Florida from getting enough monoclonal antibodies

Florida’s Surgeon General is accusing the Biden administration of “actively preventing” his state from getting enough monoclonal antibodies due to the surge in Omicron cases and calls on HHS to get out of the state’s way of providing these treatments to patients.

Here’s the important parts of the letter to HHS:

I don’t know if this is politics or just the incompetence of the administration. The CDC just admitted that they had overestimated the percentage of Omicron cases in the US, and if this is the basis for the reduction of these monoclonal antibodies, the administration must reverse course.

HHS has just issued a response to Florida’s Surgeon General, claiming Florida should have plenty:

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