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You have a working term meter. a lot of peep don't. a working thermometer and have a stash of tylenol and ibuprofen on hand. that's what we are going to recommend that you use. and think about the disruption when your child might be quarantined or isolated. we are all trying to work and maintain our lives, they might be isolated. this may happen to one out of three people listening today. >> dr. patel are you aware of any vaccinated kids in the intensive care unit anywhere right now? >> no. i know coming on board i wanted to double-check with friends in the maryland, virginia, and district of ...

>> reporter: leaving doctors at the university of washington's harbor view medical center with some tough decisions. >> we're using these medications judiciously, and really giving 'em to the people that would most benefit from these therapeutics. if we open it up to vaccinated individuals, we would not have enough therapy. >> reporter: should a vaccinated person get it, versus an unvaccinated? or should it only be unvaccinated? i mean, it is going to raise all kinds of ethical and medical sort of questions. >> the availability's so limited and more people who are unvaccinated are gonna wind u...

Therapeutics. if we open it up to vaccinated individuals, we would not have enough therapy. >> should a vaccinated person get it versus an unvaccinated? or only for unvaccinated? it's going to raise ethical and medical sort of questions. >> the availability is so limited. and more people who are unvaccinated are going to wind up in need. >> reporter: the national institutes of health guidance prioritizes treatment for those at highest risk. the immunocompromised, the elderly and, yes, the unvaccinated. >> many of the people who are seeking this therapy may not need this therapy to recover from...

I think it's important that we say this information has to stop. it is for the greater good to get vaccinated and it's not necessarily about me protecting me, it's about me protecting my mom or others in my family who are immunocompromised. that was not the tone that i got from it, i think he was being really realistic. last week at donald trump was interviewed by bill o'reilly and former president trumps that he was vaccinated and got the booster and so did bill o'reilly. they got booted by their own supporters and fans. that should be political and we need to come together so we can put this...

>> john, i'm going to borrow a term from the governor of new york. she said there is a glimmer of hope. you never want to get too excited because we've been doing this for two years now, and covid has fooled us over and over again, but there is a glimmer of hope when you see the numbers do what you just described in washington. in new york, you're starting to see a glimmer of that as well. we saw it in south africa. as quickly as it rose up, it also quickly went down. i want to add a note here, that while this is good and while the other numbers you're talking about is good news, too, that the...