So, is this expensive and patented and does it have limited availability?
Expensive drugs will enjoy trials designed and sponsored by their manufacturers.
If it's expensive - we'll have government printing more money to afford the pill, like they've been doing for the vaccine, and the general populace for the past 2 years.
But the vaccine is free! Yep... sure.
They needed to inject liquidity into the economy and justified it with COVID.
And Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. This is not relevant.
Edited. 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.
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-glo...
This is trivial to google.
Like I said, Monoclonal antibodies are not widely rolled out. Don't extrapolate from Florida.
My back of the envelope math suggests less than a billion. Peanuts compared to the recovery bills