WATCH: DeSantis slaps back at AOC after accusations that he was ‘missing’

Ocasio-Cortez was also slammed on social media for partying maskless in Miami in crowded venues as the coronavirus cases soared ripped in her home district in New York City. The "Squad" member had previously demonized DeSantis’s policies in handling the outbreak in his state, but she had no problem enjoying the lack of restrictions on her vacation. DeSantis joined Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night to weigh in on the controversy.

Hannity opened by saying, "Governor, I actually talked to people in your staff. You were in Tallahassee most of the time. And when you weren't in Tallahassee, you were with your wife. And by the way, our thoughts and prayers are with her. She's going through her treatment."

DeSantis responded, "…when people try to say that that's a vacation, I think anyone that's gone through those treatments, would not agree that chemotherapies are a vacation. My wife has had to go through that. I've accompanied her to all those treatments, trying to be a supportive husband. And so, so that's what we're doing on the one day where I didn’t have anything on my public calendar because it is a private matter."

The Governor continued, "If people are going to lie, we're going to fight back. And I can tell you when you have people like that, Congresswoman, who ripped Florida because we're open, who say you need lockdown policies, and then the first chance they get they come running down to my state, if I had a dollar for every ‘lockdown’ politician that's done that over the last two years. I'd be awfully wealthy right now."

Hannity then pivoted to a discussion on President Joe Biden hoarding supplies of monoclonal antibodies and rationing them. "How do you explain (Biden) not having enough tests available, enough monoclonals available and enough antivirals available when we know that they work?"

DeSantis responded, "Well, I think with the monoclonals, that is absolutely leading to people dying because we saw, when we put in our sites this summer in Florida to deal with the Delta wave, we kept tens of thousands of people out of the hospital. We saved thousands of lives by providing that treatment. So that should have been replicated in all these other states, but instead what Biden and his cronies, they've seized control of all the monoclonal antibodies."

"So yes, when we were in the pinch, I bought some myself, none of the governors now are able to do that because the feds have seize control. So, we're in a situation where we've now asked for 40,000 more every week because I have people that I could help, and they are holding onto it and they're not distributing it."