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As Flurona tops the headlines, several people are curious to know more about the possibility of having both COVID-19 and influenza at the same time. The World Health Organization clarified that it is possible.
Couple fronts, one, folks don't get really sick but, also, helps hospitals from being overwhelmed. how big a deal are these authorizations? >> it is a big deal. whenever we can add solid tools to the tool chest it's a big deal. but you have to remember these would pills while they are oral antivirals, you take them early in your course of infection so within three to five days, pfizer's pill has a considerable edge over the merck pill because it's a higher efficacy rate around 90% at preventing hospitalization or death, the merck pill around 30%. but there are drug-to-drug interactions with bo...
Spreading rapidly. but the death rates are much, much lower than they were. this -- this is not march of 2020. this is a very different time. that we're in now. >> the new comments from the president -- they come on a day like every other day this week that have seen major developments in the fight against the deadly virus. pfizer has now received fda approval for the first-ever antiviral pill paxlovid, which is expected to substantially reduce the rate of hospitalization and death among high-risk individuals. according to pfizer, these pills which are taken over a period of days, have an effi...
Scholar at the earth institute at columbia university, also an nbc public health analyst. thank you for being with me. cal, what are you hearing from parents as they get their children in line for the shot? >> reporter: yeah, parents are incredibly grateful. good morning to you, sir. this is an historic day in this pandemic. think about where we were a year and a half ago and what we would have given for vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. again, this vaccine has an efficacy rate in children of 91%. they'll be given about a third of the normal dosage, twice over the course of three weeks. but ...
Morning about why it's so important. >> we have kids in the hospital. they're on ventilators. thankfully most of them recover, but there's also this long haul syndrome that happens in adults, but it also happens in kids. why put your kid through that or take the risk of that where they might have a long-term problem with their heart or their brain? >> reporter: the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 91% in children ages 5 to 11 and the main side effect is a small price to pay, stephanie. sore arms. that's really what we've seen in the trial data. >> doctor, you just heard cal say it. a third of p...