WHAT DID THE FDA JUST TELL DOCTORS?

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https://m.theepochtimes.com/fda-tells-doctors-in-8-states-to-stop-using-covid-19-treatment_4364197.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-03-27-2&utm_medium=email&est=v%2Frub0nnZpFoFsp1sGCczCi1BVk6IkGMBM%2B5IrWds0vdPhZb6KD6tkriQpZ8UNuN

U.S. drug regulators have directed health care workers in eight states to stop using a COVID-19 treatment because it may not be effective against an Omicron subvariant that is rising in prevalence.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said sotrovimab, a monoclonal antibody used to treat COVID-19, can no longer be used in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Providers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are also being told to stop using stotrovimab.

Regulators believe the treatment, which was given emergency use authorization in May 2021, “is unlikely to be effective against the BA.2 subvariant,” the FDA said in a statement.

BA.2 is a subvariant of Omicron, a variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

According to genomic surveillance conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BA.2 was responsible for 12.6 percent of COVID-19 cases in the United States in the week ending on March 5. But the agency projected an increase to 35 percent in the week ending on March 19, and the subvariant was pegged as circulating widely in the northeast.

Based on the estimates, BA.2 is responsible for the majority of the cases in the states where administration of sotrovimab is now limited.

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