interfacing with patients. secondly, he talked about natural immunity which is true. if you have had covid particularly within six months you are protected. that's equivalent to a vaccine. finally, they didn't consider alternatives like testing. i'm not a lawyer and can't comment on the law but public health rational was very found. >> dana: there was an okay for the merck experimental viral treatment. the ceo of a medical college said to the panel if the probability is very low 1 in 10,000 or 100,000, that this drug would induce an escape mutant from the vaccines we don't cover that could be catastrophic for the whole world actually. i think some of these treatments sound promising especially if what dr. fauci said recently that it stays around forever and multiple ways to treat it. >> i think that comment is