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Now on one of the relatively less travel days. examine also eve historically has less busy than ours, but you also have to consider that a lot of people have already made it to their destinations, so what will it look like in the next few days or week if this continues to happen, if people continue to test positive for covid-19. are there going to be enough staff at these airlines to get everybody back home. >> a rare consideration we have to make for this. kathy, what, 44,000 cases in the state...

Use authorization. could that stave off the serious effect for the sickest patients if there is enough supply? and also, tell us about the interactions with other medications that people have to be concerned about such as statins and blood pressure medications in general. >> right. so these pills could not have come at a better time. of course as you mentioned, there are supply issues, but they are the first medication that can be taken by mouth. both require a prescription by a health care prov...

Of the essence. how are they going to pull this off? >> right, steph. a lot of potentially good news or good signs on the horizon but still a lot of challenges ahead. you mentioned these pills from pfizer. the administration has spent $10 billion on new drugs and treatments. they hope to have 10 million courses of treatment by late summer of just this pfizer pill, which appears to be a game changer, but to get to that point, the administration is going to need to help pfizer speed up manufacturi...

Green lit it. the vote was very, very close. but to have both of these pills available could really make a difference in the treatment of covid-19. the safety concerns werent so much immediate safety concerns, they were more in some ways theoretical concerns, if you will. now, availability is really going to be the question here. how quickly can the government get this out on the market? also these pills need to be taken just within days of feeling symptoms of covid-19 and getting tested and kno...

Died. but im going to give you a caveat here, and this is an important one. these are results of taking within eight days of symptom onset. you have to move quickly with this pill. you have to feel symptoms, go ahead and get a test, call a doctor, get a prescription. it can be really tough of getting all that done within five days of feeling symptoms, and if you wait too long, this pill is not going to work too well, and given the testing situation in this country and health care resources being...

Covid, and 12 died of covid, and half of them took paxlovid, eight were hospitalized and none of them died. thats a pretty dramatic difference, and theres one thing, in the clinical trials, people took it within five days of feeling symptoms of covid. you need to know you have symptoms, act on it, get tested, you need to call the doctor, the doctor needs to call it in. that is a lot to have happen within five days, especially given the testing situation in the united states, so that is one conce...

Journalist shows you. this keeps going. some of these folks have been waiting here now for three hours, stephanie. this is the frustration that is mounting. several days air go mayor bill de blasio urged the biden administration to get a handle on this testing situation and this is the result. there is a lot of frustration from the folks that have been waiting in line here for several hours already in freezing temperatures. now, another point i want to make, stephanie, new yorks governor has sai...

Opposition and contempt for testing, we didnt. its a year and a half later. were well into the biden administration, one fourth of the way into his term and we have terrible testing capacity. this is the kind of thing thats going to help americans navigate a holiday season, navigate a variant as transmissible as omicron. its something hes going to have to acknowledge, were not a year ago, its not as scary but people can avoid spreading this around by taking precautions but also getting tested. a...

193 staff tested positive yesterday, 378 students. i talked to some parents in line this morning at this covid site to talk about the situation rear in. >> the fact he cant get vaccinated isnt a big deal for him. but the fact he could be carrying and his grandmother is supposed to come for christmas and we are trying to figure out what to do about that is a little bit stressful. >> i think the testing situation is really bad and needs to be remedied. this is just the beginning of what we are goi...

Recognition of the value of vaccination in the context of this pandemic. and, look, were headed into a holiday season, and nobody wants this to be the holiday season where there was an outbreak in the family and potentially somebody got really sick and there was a bad outcome. we want to protect ourselves. there is still time. please, if youre out there, youre watching these curves, maybe in a part of country where omicron hasnt started to spread as quickly as it has in new york city, for exampl...