Tennessee is limiting monoclonal antibody treatment to unvaccinated residents

Tennessee limiting monoclonal antibody treatment to unvaccinated residents "Clinically, it makes sense," a top Tennessee health official said. NBC News

In Tennessee, the patients first in line for the monoclonal antibody Covid-19 treatment are likely to be the ones who landed in the emergency room because they did not get vaccinated.

Extraordinary demand coupled with the federal government’s need to cap shipments of these scarce drugs has forced Tennessee health officials to recommend limiting the treatment to unvaccinated patients with the worst cases of Covid-19.

But doing so raises ethical questions, public health experts said, about who should get this treatment and who shouldn’t. ...