Patients do not need a doctor presription, but can go to the site for treatment.

Monoclonal antibody therapies require a drug order (similar to a prescription) from a Health Care Provider (HCP) for eligible patients, according to the National Infusion Center Association.

However, DeSantis said the state’s surgeon general will issue an order to make certain sites available to people who meet certain criteria where they won’t need a doctor prescription.

DeSantis mentioned good candidates were elderly people and those with chronic kidney disease, diabetes, morbid obesity and sickle cell.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that nationwide orders of monoclonal antibodies are twelve times higher in recent weeks than they were at the beginning of July.

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