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Do you think there's a significant increase in government spending for paying for these pills? It's trivial compared to things like enhanced welfare benefits or

Do you think there's a significant increase in government spending for paying for these pills? It's trivial compared to things like enhanced welfare benefits or military spending

GhettoComputers 5y ago
Yes, by sheer volume. It’s not trivial. Monoclonal antibodies are thousands of dollars per treatment for instance and the idea of business loans or small business aid is that it’s going to investment. Of course none of this matters in 2019 a repo crisis was triggered: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_U.S._repo_market https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_... They needed to inject liquidity into the economy and justified it with COVID.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
  > Monoclonal antibodies are thousands of dollars per treatment for instance And Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. This is not relevant.
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    According to whom? It’s everywhere around me and you if you live in the US. https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distribution https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distributi... Edited. https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-09-23/a-new-monoclonal-antibody-drug-is-coming-to-florida-for-covid-19-treatment https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-09-23... > In August, DeSantis began opening the first of 21 rapid-response sites to administer Regeneron treatments, and more than 90,000 doses have been given. >monoclonal antibodies [cost] over $2,000. It’s about $180,000,000 just for Florida and that doesn’t include administration.
    - brokensegue 5y ago
      I'm getting a 404. Can you estimate total spending on monoclonal antibodies? My back of the envelope math suggests less than a billion. Peanuts compared to the recovery bills
    - SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
      > more than 90,000 doses (of monoclonal antibodies) have been given. COVID Vaccines: "7.19 Billion Shots Given (Globally), and in the U.S. 425 million doses have been given" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo... This is trivial to google. Like I said, Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. Don't extrapolate from Florida.

Do you think there's a significant increase in government spending for paying for these pills? It's trivial compared to things like enhanced welfare benefits or military spending

GhettoComputers 5y ago

Yes, by sheer volume. It’s not trivial. Monoclonal antibodies are thousands of dollars per treatment for instance and the idea of business loans or small business aid is that it’s going to investment. Of course none of this matters in 2019 a repo crisis was triggered: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_U.S._repo_market https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_... They needed to inject liquidity into the economy and justified it with COVID.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> Monoclonal antibodies are thousands of dollars per treatment for instance And Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. This is not relevant.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  According to whom? It’s everywhere around me and you if you live in the US. https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distribution https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/therapeutics-distributi... Edited. https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-09-23/a-new-monoclonal-antibody-drug-is-coming-to-florida-for-covid-19-treatment https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-09-23... > In August, DeSantis began opening the first of 21 rapid-response sites to administer Regeneron treatments, and more than 90,000 doses have been given. >monoclonal antibodies [cost] over $2,000. It’s about $180,000,000 just for Florida and that doesn’t include administration.
  - brokensegue 5y ago
    I'm getting a 404. Can you estimate total spending on monoclonal antibodies? My back of the envelope math suggests less than a billion. Peanuts compared to the recovery bills
  - SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
    > more than 90,000 doses (of monoclonal antibodies) have been given. COVID Vaccines: "7.19 Billion Shots Given (Globally), and in the U.S. 425 million doses have been given" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo... This is trivial to google. Like I said, Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. Don't extrapolate from Florida.