A.G. Gancarski
A Florida Senator for the second time this week warns that Florida hospitals are running perilously short on a drug crucial to the fight against COVID-19.
“New reports late last night of several hospitals in #Florida with low or no supplies of remdesivir. Shipments are coordinated by the federal govt & we have a bad disconnect between what they think we need & what we really need. Working hard to solve this problem immediately,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted Thursday.
Rubio followed up, noting that “hospital capacity was 20.72% & ICU was 15%.”
“But these numbers will get much worse if discharges slow down due to not enough doses of Remdesivir. We can’t wait until July 27th for next allocation,” the Senator noted.
The Senator has already sounded the alarm on the shortage once this week. But Thursday’s warnings were more explicit than the previous ones.
The timing on that tweet was not accidental, coming as the Governor was speaking at Jackson Memorial Hospital, which has faced shortages throughout this crisis, being a safety-net hospital in the part of the state hardest hit by coronavirus.
The struggle for the drug has been real, and federal efforts have not satisfied the needs in Florida’s hard-hit emergency rooms and ICUs.
As quickly as the state can get the medicine, it is deployed.
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a vote of confidence to the medicine in remarks Monday in hard-hit South Florida.
“That was a request because even though they were due a shipment at the end of this week or next week, they wanted to have enough because they were using it. The physicians like it, and with the uptick of people in the hospitals, (it) was needed,” DeSantis said Monday. “We are obviously going to work to make sure that supply is replenished as much as we can going forward.”
That commitment to replenishing supply led the state to even accept a shipment from New York state, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo asserted.
Cuomo, in an effort to “pay it forward,” reiterated Friday that for Florida, help is on the way.
“Tomorrow we will deliver remdesivir to Florida to help care for COVID patients. The people of NY stand shoulder to shoulder with Americans fighting this virus,” Cuomo tweeted.
The supply, just 280 doses, is intended to help Florida meet its needs until the federal government can come through, Cuomo said.
Cuomo, a Democrat, has had an ongoing back and forth feud with Florida Republican Gov. DeSantis, with Cuomo claiming that he has offered to help Florida, while DeSantis denied that help was even needed.
However, POLITICO noted that staff was grateful for the shipment, contravening the Governor’s impassioned oratory.
New reports late last night of several hospitals in #Florida with low or no supplies of Remdesivir.
Shipments are coordinated by the federal govt & we have a bad disconnect between what they think we need & what we really need.
Working hard to solve this problem immediately.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 16, 2020
5 comments
DisplacedCTYankee
July 16, 2020 at 10:47 am
Once again Rubio and Gov DeMAGA are wrong.
Remdesivir — as reported — only helps a small percentage of Covid-19 patients who have a good chance of surviving to maybe get out of hospital a few days earlier than otherwise. That’s good. But the solution is not to send people to hospital in the first place. On this front, Floriduh’s “leaders” haven’t a clue.
NoWhiteKnight
July 16, 2020 at 10:59 am
Cuomo is only able to be “kind” to Florida, because as the first State to suffer in great numbers from the virus, he begged, pleaded, cajoled and screamed, for far more help from President Trump, than he needed. Now, he has taken so much from the Federal stockpiles, that he can pretend to be a Knight on a white horse coming to save Florida from its terrible leadership.
The media are doing a hit job on DeSantis and Trump, who have done everything in their power to help stop this pandemic. If Cuomo can send medicines and PPE equipment to other states, it is due to Trump and not to Cuomo, who had nothing in New York’s stockpiles, to help New Yorkers when they needed it.
This is nothing more than a shameless attempt to make Gov. DeSantis and Pres. Trump look incompetent, while trying to make himself look grandiose, with the help of a compliant media.
Ocean Joe
July 16, 2020 at 12:15 pm
Please read this morning’s op ed by Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Md.) if you want to get serious about what Mr. Trump has actually done or not done. You will be horrified.
Pat
July 18, 2020 at 3:16 pm
You are an idiot!
Pat
July 18, 2020 at 4:27 pm
In fact I truly believe at this time you have to start calling Trump supporters dumb. There is no point in rationalizing with them any more. We have a lot of dumb people in our party also but we aren’t cruel like they are. I always believed that about 15 percent of the country would be willing to go the route of nazis but I was wrong and it’s probably more like 30 percent which is far more dangerous. The difference between the kkk and the nazis is that the kkk isn’t as smart and I feel that is the only thing really saving us right now. Putin is much smarter then the republicans so he is able to manipulate the party much easier. I am not upset at the Russians for doing what they are doing, they are our enemy after all. But the republican politicians have bent over and taken it for far to long. I actually used to think that so many of these politicians were bing blackmailed (gates,Rubio, DeSantis…..etc.) but it may actually be that they are just truly bad people. This, will get them in the fall stuff is stupid. There is plenty of time between now and then for way more damage to be done. Impeach him again and again and again and again. They are playing hardball and we are playing tiddlywinks. It would be like shutting everything down after the weekend when COVID 19 cases are skyrocketing. But as Americans we have to wait until something really bad happens to fix it. Cockpits, Pearl Harbor, etc. I believe I can speak for most Democrats when I say we are tired of this. Republicans, I don’t understand what your end game is but if you think the rest of the country is going to accept four more years of trump, you are mistaken. He is simply to annoying to handle. It truly is like hearing that noise from Dumb and Dumber for four years straight.
Sorry for venting so much.
I also suggest if u are fortunate enough to still be financially stable during this time period to donate to the Lincoln project. They will do the dirty work that for some reason the democrats are not willing to do. Standing by principle isn’t always the smartest mood. You may have held onto your principles and pride but I would have to say the person, who doesn’t have principles, standing over your corpse would be declared the winner. I have to admit pre COVID I wanted trump to suffer after being defeated, as in going to prison. But if I have to be honest if there was a way to make a deal with him and he would just disappear and wouldn’t be president anymore it would be worth it. Impeach him over and over again. They wore down many of the Democrats with the stupid Hillary stuff. Do the same to the fence sitter republicans to where it just isn’t worth it for them anymore. Your not going to lose democratic voters this time. Push it to where all the vulnerable republican senators have to constantly be on the record for being ok with the non democratic things that are going on.
One person will probably read this(and that could be an over estimate. I live in California and am posting on this random website while sick in bed so I suppose I am the foolish one. My suggestion to everyone is to take pot(responsibly) because you will gain more empathy and clearly at least 40 percent of this country is truly in need of that.
So to that one person reading this(my luck would be a trump supporter or a Russian bot) spread the word, we are truly in some deep caca here.
And to the Russian Bot, if you are listening, I don’t suppose you have some video of trump doing really bad things, because if you released it, maybe we could come up with a diplomatic compromise that would be beneficial to both countries. At this point we have to think outside the box. Why on earth did anyone ever think that a casino owner would be a good choice. He literally hopes every person that comes in the casinos lose there life savings. What a great attribute for any president to have.
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