Doctors and health systems are again in the difficult position again of rationing supplies and COVID treatments to meet the needs of those in the most dire situations, the New York Times reported.
"It makes me nauseous going home at night because it makes me feel like I'm deciding, with this limited resource, who should get it," Dr. Christian Ramers, an infectious disease specialist at Family Health Centers of San Diego, a network of clinics for low-income patients, told the newspaper.
Ramers' clinics have had to turn away most -- about 90% -- of the hundreds of people who call every day seeking COVID treatments they’re eligible to get, he added. "It is devastating to tell these patients, ‘Sorry, we can’t do anything for you, we have to save this drug only for our most severely immunocompromised,'" Erin McCreary, an infectious diseases, which are administered intravenously, have been the primary treatment for newly infected patients. The two most common types, however, don’t appear to keep Omicron at bay.
The one monoclonal antibody that is effective against Omicron, made by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology, is in limited supply. The federal government has ordered only about 450,000 treatment courses, thereported. The United States did not immediately order supplies of that treatment when it was authorized last May because it already had a large supply of other antibody treatments.from Pfizer that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized two weeks ago.
Patrick Creighton, 48, a sports radio host in Katy, Texas, came down with COVID over the holidays and managed to get some Paxlovid pills, but it took him two telehealth visits and 19 calls to pharmacies before he had them in hand.
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