process that everyone knows and learned about over the last couple of years. this emergency use authorization application means the fda will now look at this, but as, you know, as you mentioned, this trial was paused because an independent group of advisers basically looks at the trial results and says, something's going on here. >> something good is going on here. >> something good is going on here. so much so we don't think it is really even ethical to continue doing the trial if it is potentially as good as it sounds. >> this is one of the things that has been missing all along, right? i'm not saying -- this is not a replacement for vaccines, they're most important thing here. early on before the vaccine everyone was hoping there would be some miracle drug that could keep you out of the hospital if you caught covid. >> yeah. it is really interesting, john. just historically we think about antibiotics, lots of antibiotics for bacterial infections. as far as antivirals for viral infections, in the word of hiv/aids, that's where it has been studied. tamiflu, you know, but never really been the big antiviral