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Covid, and 12 died of covid, and half of them took paxlovid, eight were hospitalized and none of them died. that's a pretty dramatic difference, and there's one thing, in the clinical trials, people took it within five days of feeling symptoms of covid. you need to know you have symptoms, act on it, get tested, you need to call the doctor, the doctor needs to call it in. that is a lot to have happen within five days, especially given the testing situation in the united states, so that is one concern about this pill. we'll see how it works when it comes out in real life rather than just clinica...

Medicine cabinet with a diverse set of options to treat people. let me walk through the three types of treatments starting with monoclonal antibody treatments which have proven to be highly effective. since july, we have deployed 2.7 monoclonal antibody treatment courses to help keep people out of the hospital and save lives. from the moment we learned of omicron, we began assessing our existing monoclonal antibody treatments and we learned that two of the three existing treatments are not effective against the new variant. fortunately glaxosmithkline's monoclonal antibody treatment is effecti...

22 days after the first reported case in the country. a top researcher in south africa says the country is beyond its peak of omicron, saying south africa is seeing a serious decline in cases in the area where it was first detected. that is potentially good news for the word, the first pill to treat covid, how well does it work? >> it works quite well, and it's something you can take home. the doctor calls in a prescription. it's not a monoclonal antibody. but there is a kavp icaveat whi get to in a moment. about half of them took a placebo, a pill that did nothing, and at the end of the month...

Understand the risks around holiday travel. holiday gatherings and risk of travel really has less to do with the airplane or car ride and much more to do with how people from different households behave in the weeks todays before meeting up. importantly, consider gathering with family and friends who are also practicing similar proper prevention measures. and as we have said before, those who remain unvaccinated are the most vulnerable to covid-19. cdc data now updated through november when delta was the predominant strain circulating demonstrated that an unvaccinated person has a ten times gr...

Individuals who had two dose vaccine. this is validated by the clinical data which shows that the vaccine efficacy, as we all know from previous studies of a symptomatic infection of a two-dose mrna wanes over time. however, there's a moderate to high effectiveness, about 75% seen in the early period after a booster dose and very likely higher when it comes to hospitalization and severe disease. next slide. a quick word now on something that jeff mentioned is namely the treatments that are available. unfortunately, but understandably, with the degree of mutations that we have with omicron, som...