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Special report. trumping democracy, an american coupe. this could be a step forward in the fight against covid. pfizer says the experimental pill reduces the risk of hospitalization, and death from the coronavirus by 89%. joining us now is cnn senior medical continue elizabeth cohn, this sounds significant, what do we know about this clinical trial? >> alisyn, it is significant. what's also significant is a pill by merck, an antiviral where results were announced a couple of weeks ago. these could be a game changer once people get covid. it's best to be vaccinated and not get covid. if you...

Placebo they said, hey, we need to stop this. it's called stopping for benefit and we need to give pfizer the chance to apply now or soon to the fda for emergency use authorization. so let's take a look at the data that made this monitoring board say hey, this is looking so good. let's stop this trial now. so there were about 775 patients in this trial. these folks had very early covid. within three days of the first -- of having the first symptoms of covid. and the folks who received a placebo, which is a pill that does nothing, 27 of them ended up in the hospital over time and 7 of them died...

That does nothing, 27 of them ended up in the hospital over time, and 7 of them died. the folks who received the real pill, the real antiviral pill, three of them ended up in the hospital, and none of them died. that is quite notable. there were no side effects detected, of course this is a small group of people, 775. there's going to be questions about what happens when you give it to a larger group of people, but still, there's are promising results, and pfizer says they may be applying for emergency use authorization as soon as thanksgiving or by thanksgiving. victor, alisyn. >> interesting...

>> right. >> finally, finally if you are looking at how much billionaires, the 775 billionaires in america, actually how much they gained over the course of the pandemic, over the last year and a half, just in terms of their fortunes, 775 people, that was $2.1 trillion. >> wow. >> right there. i mean it is compared to everything else, the numbers that joe biden is talking about for fundamental -- it is fundamental things. child care and medicare, help for seniors, for vision and for hearing and for all kinds of other things, basic needs of america, well, it is more important -- excuse me for s...

"cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell in our >> announcer: a landlord looks to take back her rented condo. >> i'm not gonna be putting my baby in no house with a stained carpet. >> judge judy: she's not putting in new carpeting anywhere. >> i didn't ask her to put in new carpet. >> judge judy: well, you did. you have that here. you have $775 for carpet for the two bedrooms. >> announcer: but first, this tenant and her daughter want answers. >> can i see the proof where you paid the bill? >> i'm not paying it till -- >> you just said you paid. >> i didn't say i paid for it. mind your business...