Doctor kessler, it s always an honor to have time with you. thank you for making time. thank you for having, me rachel. the president said, if you re vaccinated and boosted you should look at these rising case numbers and this current wave with concern, but not with alarm. i will tell you, honestly, i feel alarmed, looking at the hospitalization numbers rising so steeply. i was not alarm about the case numbers rising, because we have been told, and you have explained that the cases are more mild. they re not necessarily as more as threatening. seeing the hospitalization numbers going up so steeply, when the hospitals were already tax, i m worried about that. so, let s go through what we know. first, cases are everywhere. yes, there is an increase in hospitalizations, and my friends in the icu units, they are crushed. no question, increase in
There is over 4 million doses of those treatments available this month, don t forget, the most important thing, even if you haven t had your first dose of vaccine, please go get that, that s absolutely key. there are a lot of treatments available, more on the way. doctor david kessler, chief science adviser to the biden administration. another is a lot going on in terms of policy response, trying to be nimble in response to the gigantic new wave, thank you for taking time to help us understand. i appreciated, sir. my pleasure, rachel. we ll be right back, stay with us. with us. was a bit of a buzz kill, right? so she ordered sunglasses with prime, one day delivery. clever girl. people realized she s actually hilarious once you get to know her. eugh. as if.
President s infection numbers going up now like crazy is one, thing with seeing those grasses hospitalizations going up, just a steeply, that s unsettling as well. the white house today announced that they re doubling the size the order of pfizer s very effective, but very scarce anti viral pill. there are ordering 20 million not, 10 million the cdc should get their pfizer booster five months after your second pfizer shot, rather than waiting to six months. the fda has just approved booster shots for kids aged 12 to 15. there s a lot going on, there s a lot of movement, there s a lot of action happening in terms of response to this wave. but, the hospitalizations numbers and case numbers are both looking scary right now. honestly. joining us now, david kessler. a great source of guidance for us, here, over the past few months. the chief science adviser to the biden ministration.
one of the things i want to ask you, doctor kessler is the changing options, for people who need treatment. for people who are sick and who are at high risk of advancing to serious illness, needing to be hospitalized, or potential death. these monoclonal antibodies have saved a lot of lives over the last few. months we ve talked about it a bunch of times over the last little bit. there s been a psychological factor. even if people were not willing to get vaccinated, they re willing to get sent to that type of treatment if they got ill. now, the monoclonal antibodies we have been using most often, do not work against omicron. can you talk to us a little bit about the decision-making that you ve been part of, or the government is gone through, around that one remaining monoclonal antibody, that is in such short supply, that does seem to work against omicron. rachel, you helped us over the months get out the word of how important these monoclonal
Positive? what are you going to do? how are you going to approach it? if you are someone you love is maybe going to need one of these treatments? the treatment landscape, as well as the vaccine landscape and all these things, is very much in flux right now. but the good news is, is that there are experts among us who can help us understand them and none of it is so complex that we as regular, late people can t absorb it. joining us now is our friend dr. david kessler, a great source of guidance. and doctor kessler thank you for making time tonight. i d love to have you back soon. i hope you don t mind that i kept that in so quickly. o quickly. pleasure, rachel. any of that wrong. i think it s a little bit hard to keep track of our medicine cabinet is changing, in terms of water vaccines and treatments can do to help us with this new variant. did i screw any of that up? no, you got a perfect. i think we have to recognize