Thread by @MichaelRCaputo

Let me help you here, @dchangmiami. As one of many immunocompromised patients who received the Evusheld antibodies at @IcareMedicine, I feel blessed. It wasn’t easy, but it could have been if BidenCo could find their backsides with both hands. They can’t. 1/

https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1480696716080955395

Evusheld is an important treatment made available by @GovRonDeSantis and @FLSurgeonGen Joseph Ladapo for immunocompromised Floridians including cancer recovery patients like me. I was vaxed 3 times with Moderna but an antibodies test revealed that I had zero B cell immunities. 2/

This was a shock for our family. Still in the early stages of my cancer recovery it was a real possibility I might get sick with Omicron. I called many hospitals; I couldn’t get a human on the phone. (Are you surprised?) The first place to even talk to me was @IcareMedicine. 3/

I’ll admit to being a bit reluctant to get such a vital treatment outside a hospital setting but iCare made it easy to get an appointment in a reasonable amount of time. I didn’t have to sit on the phone on hold; their text sign-up system was very convenient and worked well. 4/

We showed up on time and @IcareMedicine was ready for me immediately. It was obvious right away they knew exactly what they were doing. The paperwork was simple and I was in front of a medical specialist for the treatment within 10 minutes. He told me something interesting. 5/

Apparently when @HealthyFla called iCare they said they had to hold off sending Evusheld because they feared the doses would sit around through Christmas, maybe even without proper storage, because hospitals told them they would be unavailable through the holiday. Not iCare. 6/

Dr. Nicholas Suite of @IcareMedicine slept at his clinic on Christmas Eve away from his family to make sure the Evusheld doses were properly received and his team went to work right away. I got my first text offering the dosage on Christmas Day. Where were you that day, Dan? 7/

I signed up for my Evusheld appointment on their Web site while my daughters unwrapped their presents. The page was super busy; as I picked a day/time the appointment would disappear. I got one pretty fast though. My wife and I planned to get to their office New Year’s Eve. 8/

Where were you New Year’s Eve Dan? Were the complaining hospital doctors waiting for patients in their parking lot to triage them for a lifesaving COVID treatment? Were they working until dark assuring immunocompromised patients were protected from COVID or chilling champagne? 9/

As a former Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic, I truly appreciate the professionalism and expertise of @IcareMedicine and I am deeply thankful for their help. BidenCo, not so much. They bungled Evusheld provisioning. 10/

Did you ask why Florida had to wait so damn long for Evusheld doses Dan? I guess not. I know why because I was there for the 2020 provisioning of Remdesivir as the pandemic burned - the bureaucrats couldn’t get out of their own way. And now Biden intentionally got in the way. 11/

Did you ask why BidenCo intentionally broke the monoclonal antibody distribution system @GovRonDeSantis built to save Floridian lives months ago? No. Did you ask why months later supplies were still short and then not even available? Why do vulnerable people have to scramble? 12/

A bunch of hospitals who never put live people on the phones and who give no answers except “call later” when a human does pick up were unwilling to work on a holiday to take deliveries, Dan. @IcareMedicine was there. I’m sure @HealthyFla workers were there the whole way too. 13/

You wrote a story any J-school kid could write: find complainers, don’t ask the right questions, transcribe the anti-DeSantis narrative and avoid the real story: @HealthyFla and places like @IcareMedicine busted there asses to get Evusheld out while you all had your holiday. END