When I get sick I will certainly look for this in my area too. I know it has to be done early, but seems prudent to do. I got the vax back in February, but fully expect I will get sick at some point due to how common it is here.

Advent Health? Here in Florida, they started opening stand alone monoclonal infusion centers a few months ago. I’m not sure if Bay Care or any of the other medical providers have.

As of this morning, over 9000 public school students in our district are in isolation or quarantined (Covid). After 5 days of classes.

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Our friends in your area are home with it….She is a teacher, so home, and he is working from home, but coughing…Praying your sweet friend is OK.

I posted this yesterday morning and wondered why it didn't show up!

Thank you @Springroz. I haven't heard anything yet today.

Thanks for the update Tina, good to know!

My area was put on State of Emergency status today.

Yesterday, Aug 18, a big monoclonal antibody therapy treatment center was opened in Broward County. It’s set up to treat 300 people daily!

Within the week at least 2 more sites will open near us. One at the Florida State Fair property and another in St. Petersburg at Tropicana Field.

Are other states doing this?

https://www.flgov.com/2021/08/18/governor-ron-desantis-expands-access-to-covid-treatment-by-opening-new-monoclonal-antibody-site-in-broward-county/

@just_terrilynn I hate to hear that! Stay safe.

Oklahoma isn't, as far as I know. Hopefully, we will follow suit. I'm glad Gov DeSantis is getting it out there, for those who never listened in earlier covid, that treatment in the beginning is KEY! DeSantis is always ahead of the game, he puts time in researching and educating himself and he has always known, waiting until you are hospitalized is too late!

^^ contains arguable statements.

^^Of course, I didnt expect otherwise.

I‘m actually surprised you posted about the treatment sites. Thats a start!

“I‘m actually surprised you posted about the treatment sites. Thats a start!”

Why? Seriously why would posting information that might be helpful surprise you?

It's true, early treatment is key. It is said that the antibody treatment should be administered within 10 days of onstart of symptoms. Just talked to another of the lunch bunch ladies. Our friend has turned the corner! She received the antibody treatment on day 8 and today is day 11. As of yesterday they were still feeling absolutely awful (think very bad case of flu), weak, not eating, etc. but little to no respiratory symptoms - thank goodness. This morning they woke up and she was hungry. She asked her husband if he was hungry and he wanted waffles! Thank goodness!! Both of them received the vaccine earlier.

My friend of a friend was released from the hospital first of the week. She spent almost two weeks in the hospital - most of that time in ICU. She was not vaccinated. She had the antibody treatment before she was hospitalized. She is better but sleeping a good part of the day. Thankful to be home - and alive! She is about 20 years younger than my lunch bunch lady and her husband, yet she was the one seriously ill. It makes you think about the pros of the vaccine!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

1 MA treatment is around $1000. Vaccines are around $25, and masking and distancing = less than a few dollars.

If you are the governor of my state and you test positive for Covid (after banning masks and attending several maskless gatherings of hundreds), even though you are symptom-free you will receive this treatment paid for by my fellow Texans and me. Hypocrisy.

True - despite the argument that the treatment is free, somebody is paying for it, even if you aren't charged at the point of delivery. The federal gov't is paying for the vaccines to be free for all of us, as I'm sure most are aware.

Overemphasis on this latest 'miracle cure' is a means of funneling public monies into private hands, IMPO. Isn't that the definition of a boondoggle?

And I understand it does not work for everyone either.

The other thing that's weird is that some of the folks in support of this have claimed the vaccines were not well tested - which is absolutely not true - yet at the same time, these newer drug treatments AREN'T as well tested as the vaccines.

Full disclosure re desantis: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-donor-of-floridas-ron-desantis-invests-in-covid-drug-that-governor-promotes-01629247356

When I had a general checkup last week, my PCP told me that if I ever tested positive for COVID, to immediately get treated with monoclonal antibodies (mAb). She emphasized that I should not wait until I was feeling bad.

She further said that people of a certain age (sorry, I can’t remember what that age was) and people with supressed immune systems should get the mAb treatment prophylactically if they are exposed to someone with COVID.

She also said that up until now mAb treatment was only by infusion, but just last week, it had been approved for subcutaneous injections.

I have been looking for and hoping our area would get this monoclonal antibody therapy in their repertoire since before the vaccines were released. A dear dear neighbor contracted COVID--after a year of many medical issues, she's fully vaccinated and very careful due to her weakened state but this bug finds a way. This is not a new treatment nor should it be considered unusual. It's been suggested since before the vaccines were readily available. Sadly there are too many people with paranoid conspiracy theory type opinions who get a lot of press so life saving SCIENCE has been hard to hear.