WATCH: DeSantis slams AP's 'hit piece' on him as a 'false, partisan narrative'

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis joined Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night to hit back against a "partisan hit piece" by the Associated Press alleging wild conspiracies about the state's antibody treatments.

Hannity introduced the Governor and said, "Now that the CDC acknowledges the vaccine does not prevent one from contracting the COVID 19 virus... they're saying that we see large numbers of people now, larger numbers it seems every day, 30 percent in LA I read, we've seen it with a number of us senators, our friend, Governor Abbott, thank God, he's okay."

The Fox News host continued, "If you have a breakthrough case, you set up these monoclonal antibody centers and you're setting them up all throughout Florida. You were the first governor mobilize every state agency to protect the elderly. When we first got hit with COVID, you didn't send them into nursing homes to infect other people. And as a result, the AP attacked you and then they made all these charges."

DeSantis responded, "Well, it was a clearly a partisan hit piece. They're trying to act like this is not effective treatment that we're doing it, a bizarre theory to boost Regeneron stock price. But as you know Sean, President Trump bought out all the Regeneron last year. So it's already been paid for by the federal government. What we take down from Florida and give to patients, there's no charge for it. It has no financial incentive at all. All we're trying to do is help people. And this was underutilized for the last nine months."

"What we found is, as hospital admissions were going up in Florida, most of these people didn't know about this treatment who got hospitalized, and we believe that if they'd gotten it, many of them would not have needed to go into the hospital. So we've raised awareness of it. Now we have 17 centers that can do each center can do 320 treatments a day. We'll probably have 21 set up by the middle of this week. And this is, this is having an impact on keeping people out of the hospital."

"Now what the AP did by trying to create a false narrative is, some people may believe the narrative and then think that this is not a viable treatment for them, so that if they're infected, they will not go seek a monocolonal antibody. And that will ultimately increase their risk of hospitalization," DeSantis said.

"So the AP knew what they were doing," he went on. "They wanted to do a political hit on me, and the fallout from that is that there will likely be people who decline lifesaving treatment. And then they had the temerity to act like they were the victim when they got called out on their hit piece."

"Sean, the days of corporate media, being able to smear people with impunity. And conservatives do nothing. Those days are over. I can tell you in Florida, we're fighting back with the truth and we are going to hold you accountable when you're peddling false partisan narratives."