(Snippets from the frontline)
COVID-19/BLM: Asking for treatment in the vaccine gray zone
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has been deficient leaving many Americans in a gray zone. Fear of exposure and hospitalization lingers, but medical technology has provided an option.
If you develop COVID-19 symptoms and a swab test is positive, call your nearest emergency room and inquire if they carry the “monoclonal antibody.” In the U.S. it should be free, and in certain hospitals, available for infusion. But you have to ask!
Yep, sometimes doctors will not give you this medical option, yet the former President, his attorney, and a previous governor of New Jersey received this treatment, so why not you? It is being underutilized.
The vaccine stimulates your immune system to make antibodies, but medical technology now provides us with a manmade antibody which is thought to be just as effective when you are ill.
You must be an outpatient (which you are in the emergency room) and meet certain criteria (look up online). And of course, check with your primary care physician.
Even though you might be in the gray zone awaiting your vaccine, there are still options.
You just have to ask!
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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