The legislation comes amid a right-wing uproar over including race and ethnicity as factors in monoclonal antibody COVID-19 treatments.
A new treatment center for monoclonal antibodies is shown to media, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Murray. The Utah Department of Health, which will operate the facility, will use the treatment for those sick with COVID-19 and provide infusions for up to 50 patients per day.Utah’s political leaders and health care associations would have veto power over future medical rationing plans brought forward by the state’s health department under a new bill.
The bill touches on one of the latest political flashpoints related to the pandemic — the rationing of scarce COVID-19 treatments — with right-wing personalities andLast month, the Utah Department of Health who gets monoclonal antibodies and antiviral treatments. Those characteristics were originally included as factors based on clinical data showing men and patients of color are at heightened risk of hospitalization or death from coronavirus.
The new legislation sponsored by Sen. Lincoln Fillmore would require the state health department to send any future medical rationing proposals to the governor, Senate president, House speaker and UDOH executive director for review. If the criteria would affect hospitals or health care workers, the plan would also have to go to the main professional associations representing them in the state.
The drafted criteria would have to remain on hold for at least 10 days, and even then, couldn’t take effect without approval from all the state officials and groups listed by the bill., would also call on a legislative panel to examine all the state health department’s existing medical rationing plans and offer recommendations about whether to continue, suspend or modify them.
UDOH officials would have to report back to the Administrative Rules Review Committee within 15 days about whether it would follow the panel’s recommendations and would have to explain the rationale behind any refusal to comply.The department last month cited “legal concerns” as the reason it took sex and race out of the formula for determining which patients should get prioritized for monoclonal antibodies and antiviral pills.
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