Mayor Daniella Levine Cava Requests More Monoclonal Antibody Treatments After County Exhausts Supply

Miami FL

23 December, 2021

9:55 AM

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CBS Miami December 23, 2021 Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has reached out to the state's health department requesting monoclonal antibody treatment doses after the county exhausted its supply of Regeneron. In a letter to state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the mayor said with the recent rise of the Omicron variant, now the dominant COVID-19 strain in the county, they are doing everything they can to combat the latest surge and protect lives and livelihoods. "We have come too far, and have made too much progress, to let our guard down now, and we are using every tool in our toolkit to keep residents and visitors safe, particularly during the holiday season. We are continuing to make vaccination and the booster shots widely available; offering testing at nearly 30 locations countywide; requiring hospitals to provide daily COVID reporting and sequencing and sampling wastewater for variants; and working to expand access to the latest treatment options," wrote Levine Cava. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.