ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held another event to promote Regeneron treatments for COVID-19 on Monday, unveiling a new clinic at Camping World Stadium in Orlando amid the surge in cases and hospitalizations in the state.
Asked why he hasn’t been promoting vaccinations with the same enthusiasm he has for the monoclonal antibody treatment, DeSantis downplayed the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing the spread of the virus and said “our entire vulnerable population has basically been vaccinated.”
“Even though we’ve done all the nursing homes, for example, we still see people that are testing positive in the nursing homes,” DeSantis said. “So yeah, they’re vaccinated. That’s great. That was the right thing to do. I do think it reduced for at least a few months the number of infections in nursing homes. But it’s not just Florida, you’re seeing now more people are testing positive. So then what do you do?”
