>> right. >> or year and a half ago now. i can't remember. and there was a lot of promise behind that, as well. and ultimately, it did not actually reduce mortality that much, remdesivir. >> i remember that and all that hope. and to your point about what does it do to the rest of the body? i mean, chemotherapies, you know, now you can get pill forms but it still can hurt other cells in the body so you got to really know that. >> virus is different than a bacteria. a virus needs a human cell to replicate. so by definition, in order to interfere with that replication, you are doing something inside the cell. again, it can be totally safe but that's part of what they got to make sure. what the data has shown so far has been pretty significant. i mean, you saw how much it decreased hospitalizations and even deaths. overall, you know, about 50% reduction. what that meant was some 377 people received the pills. two pills a day for five days. versus people in the placebo group. and what they found, you can see there on the screen, 28 were hospitalized among the group that got the medication, versus