The White House tore into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his plans to fight COVID-19 with monoclonal antibodies after the Food and Drug Administration revoked authorization for the treatment.
The new FDA policy only allows those "likely to have been infected with or exposed to a variant that is susceptible to these treatments" to receive the new medication, despite Florida's leadership advocating for its use.
DeSantis said the move was medical authoritarianism from the Biden administration, but press secretary Jen Psaki had other words to describe the situation.
"Let’s just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this is," Psaki said Tuesday. "What the FDA is making clear is that these treatments, the ones that they are fighting over, that the governor [DeSantis] is fighting over, do not work against omicron, and they have side effects. That is what the scientists are saying."
