Thread by @SteveDeaceShow

Wednesday on the show, @RMConservative claimed denial of effective early treatments for Covid-19 has caused a "genocide." That so many have died who didn't have to. Is he right? In this thread we will examine that claim, looking at just one early and proven effective treatment.

Monoclonal antibodies are the only FDA approved early treatment for Covid-19 that is actually effective. A year ago at this time, they were given to President Trump in the hospital and may have saved his life. A month later, they were given emergency authorization by the FDA.

August 12th, @GovRonDeSantis announced his state was making the treatment portable and more available. Between November of 2020 when it was FDA EUAed and August 2021, how often had you heard/seen this effective treatment mentioned or promoted?

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Me neither. That's 9 months of pandemic time wasted. How many people didn't get this treatment because they didn't even know it was available? Why wasn't this more heavily promoted? Fauci barely mentioned it all this time, until DeSantis raised awareness of it.

How many lives could've potentially been saved by monoclonal if it were more available and promoted? Let's find out, and see if we have a genocide as Daniel claimed.

According to studies/trials, monoclonal is about 60-80% effective in preventing/stopping serious Covid infections that lead to hospitalization or death. Florida saw similar real-time effectiveness during its initial deployment as well.

More than 751,000 lives have been lost in the U.S. with Covid-19. If we apply the lowest efficacy attributed to monoclonal of 60%, that's 451,000 lives. However, it's not that simple. The drug hasn't been on the market the whole time, not everyone is clinically eligible, etc.

So let's say just 10% of those 751,000 lives lost could've been saved with monoclonal therapy. 60% efficacy within that subset = more than 45,000 lives.

To put that in perspective, the bloodiest battle in American history -- Antietam -- cost us 23,000 lives. Or about half the potential lives more access/awareness of monoclonal (which Biden is now rationing) could've saved.

About 58,000 American soldiers died during the Vietnam War. More access to and awareness of monoclonal could've wiped out 78% of those casualties.

About 5,500 Americans combined died during the two most successful attacks on our country in the last 80 years -- Pearl Harbor and 9/11. That's 781% FEWER deaths than we could've potentially prevented with more availability/awareness of monoclonal antibodies.

Keep in mind, this is estimating low and only factoring in one effective early treatment -- so far the only one approved by the FDA. When you factor in other promising early treatments being denied Americans, you bet your ass this is effectively a genocide. Daniel is sadly right.