President Trump asserted the medication had cured him of COVID-19. Rudy Giuliani and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie raved about receiving it during their bouts of coronavirus.
Yet only a fraction of the available doses of monoclonal antibodies have made it into the arms of less-famous patients, despite preliminary data suggesting the experimental drug might keep people out of the hospital.
Nationwide, patients have received 20 percent of the 378,000 doses that the federal government has distributed to states.
In Massachusetts, health officials said they have sent 5,650 doses to 14 hospitals — and as of Thursday, nine had reported treating a mere 133 patients.
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The only person I know who got Regeneron double monoclonal antibodies drug is the Chief of Infectious Disease at a major state hospital. It worked well for him and he then asked his insurance company how much they had been billed for his doses and was told $37,000.
