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Commissioner this week saying that nearly everyone is going to encounter the omicron variant. are you discouraged by that? what do you make of this change in tone? >> reporter: well i think weve been hearing some version of this for some time. remember, the w.h.o. european chief, when omicron started really surging said, within six to eight weeks they anticipated that, you know, half of european citizens would likely be exposed to this just within six to eight weeks. its not that surprising. als...

Has a in twist and turn. where we are today. i have changed a bit in my stance, because it now is very clear someone from novaks camp is not telling the truth. whether him, his party. whomever. very clear not the truth there that we can see and now are looking at the end result. for just a moment people were on his side in australia. thinking, unfair. in detention center. all that may be true but something not clear here in terms of timing and you know you had covid, went outside and interviewed...

>> yeah. interesting note. she did not resign in response to january 6th. kind of ghosted there end of the administration working from home in florida but did not resign. alyssa, thank you so much. >> thanks. novak djokovic is now officially the number one seed in the australian open mens singles draw, but he is still waiting for immigration officials to decide on his visa, which has been granted, then rev revoked, granted and may be revoked yet again over issues with his travel forms and covi...

Will soon be in short supply. they will need to be rationed. >> challenging. >> reporter: leaving doctors like this at harvards medical center with some tough decisions. >> were using these medications judiciously and really giving them to the people that would most benefit from these therapeutics. if we open it up to vaccinated individuals, we would not have enough therapy. >> reporter: should a vaccinated person get it versus an unvaccinated? only for unvaccinated? raising all kinds of ethical...

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Declined very fast. you know, in a matter of days. i know me being overweight just kind of worried me. >> reporter: despite being boosted, clays bmi of 35 placed him at higher risk. so clays doctor prescribed his pla paxlovid helping those with highest risk. >> game changer dramatically alter impact of covid-19. >> reporter: its a combination of oral pills that work by interfering with the virus ability to replicate. based on its high efficacy, the 20 million courses bought by the biden administ...

Close friends. very good friends. bob, lovely guy. you hear it from all the people who worked with him. when you do a show, you know, like he did, that lasted for years. everybody becomes the family and you know each other very well. and from what im hearing from everybody, they just loved bob, and that -- you just heard him talking the way he used omicron, opening for -- for delta. he was really funny, and, of course, one of the stories that you may have heard is that he became friends with my ...

To plateau. governor kathy hochul says while cases are increasing elsewhere in the state this change could be a "bglimmer of hope". the fact the decline may have started in places hit first and hardest is significant. so also this morning, when the fda authorized the first oral anti-viral covid treatment last month it was welcomed as a game changer. that drug and others, theyre scarce. forcing doctors to decide who gets treatment and who doesnt. cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupt...

Packs around. >> reporter: dr. eric topol vice president of research at scrips in san diego and believes the biden administration should have invested in these months ago. >> had we had hundreds of millions of blister packs wed be so much better to defend against omicron. >> reporter: several months before authorized there were at-risk investments made, bets made on various vaccines, and those are gambles. were those same sorts of gambles made on therapeutics? >> the fact this was the first medi...

Conditions that anybody was concerned about, and bob actually spoke about having covid in a podcast just a few days before his death. take a listen. >> it is not good. it does not feel good. i had it, and -- >> yeah. its not good. >> i dont know if i had delta or -- i might have had a combo. maybe at one point they were working together. i dont know. i think at one point omicron was opening for delta, but then omicron got so big, deltas opening now over omicron. >> reporter: always had a sense o...