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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
National
Omar Rodríguez Ortiz

DeSantis: Patients, doctors should decide which COVID therapy is best, not the feds

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not letting up after the federal government said two of the most common therapies for treating COVID-19 — available until recently — should not be used because they don’t work against the omicron variant.

In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, DeSantis said patients, with their doctors, should be free to choose the monoclonal antibody treatment that works best for them.

“It’s their decision,” he said in a room full of reporters at the north campus of Miami Dade College.

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