Florida shipped a scarce new COVID drug to treat the most vulnerable of patients to a private clinic in Broward County before sending it to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, which runs the largest solid organ transplant center in the Southeastern U.S.
monoclonal antibody drug to treat the most vulnerable of patients — those with cancer or organ transplants whose immune systems don’t respond well to a vaccine — to a private clinic in Broward County before sending the therapeutic to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, which runs the largest solid organ transplant center in the Southeastern United States and provides follow-up care to thousands of immuno-compromised patients.
Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat mild or moderate COVID-19 within 10 days of the person’s first symptom, to prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death. Jackson Health System, Miami-Dade’s public hospital network, which runs the Miami Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Miami Health System, declined an interview request from the Herald regarding Evusheld and the significance of the new therapeutic for its patients.
“It’s the providers that are caring for those patients that can help better understand which of those patients probably should be prioritized above others for getting the drug,” Ison said. “They will allow it to be given to anyone including people that may not be residents of the state, thereby kind of offering the drug to patients that are lower risk before those that are higher risk have a chance to get them,” he said.
But Ison said he learned about iCare providing Evusheld from his patients in Chicago who traveled to South Florida to receive the drug from the private clinic. Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago will get its first doses this week, he said.
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