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“Joe Biden’s Clumsy Political Warfare Now Risking Lives”
One America News Network
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis
September 24, 2021
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Joe Biden is afraid of Ron DeSantis. That much is clear. While we know that our great Governor is simply keeping his head down and working hard to keep our businesses open and our economy growing, our insecure President thinks Gov. DeSantis is a political threat to his future. In fact, just recently Gov. DeSantis worked – with no help from the feds – to secure another 3,000 doses of monoclonal antibody treatment after Biden cut supply to Florida.
After weeks of Gov. DeSantis’ public promotion of monoclonal antibody treatments at events across the state, Joe Biden took to his presidential podium to applaud how great the treatment works for reducing hospitalizations and Covid-19 complications.
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But, what he did next was not increase our supply at all - at least not in Florida. In what can only be described as a clumsy attempt to swipe at our Governor for his weeks of public promotion of monoclonal antibody treatments, Biden CUT Florida’s allotment of this therapy by 41,000 doses per week - over half of the 72,000 usual weekly doses.
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Biden’s White House is trying to explain away the serious cut to Florida’s supply by saying antibody therapies need to be more equitable across all states. But, that is crazy. Monoclonal antibody therapies are a medicine, and as such, they should be distributed based on the amount of people who are sick, not an arbitrary standard of equality. I have two children. If one of them is sick and I only have one dose of Tylenol, I do not split the one dose evenly between the healthy and the sick child. I treat my sick child. The resources may seem “uneven” between them, but it’s also common sense to help heal the sick.
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About CFO Jimmy Patronis
Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis is a statewide elected official and a member of Florida’s Cabinet who oversees the Department of Financial Services. CFO Patronis works each day to fight insurance fraud, support Florida’s firefighters, and ensure the state’s finances are stable to support economic growth in the state. Follow the activities of the Department on Facebook (FLDFS) and X (@FLDFS).