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Procedure that's required for getting access to t-pox. >> was it difficult to get access? >> definitely. you have to have a high suspicion or a positive monkeypox test in order to get it, and it requires hours and hours of paperwork for the doctors, actually, to get it from the national stockpile. for people who aren't connected to academic medical centers like me it's difficult to get this even if you're in severe pain. >> what more do you think the administration can do as we discussed at the top of the segment even dr. fauci is saying more needs to be done? there's talk of a monkeypox coord...

Monkeypox. >> okay. so once you were prescribed that, what did the treatment entail? >> it's a 14-day course you have to take with a fatty meal to help with the absorption. within two days of getting the treatment i started to feel better and hatch of my lesions started to disappear rather than progressing to scabs like it normally does. getting the drug was a complicated process a lot of people are not able to do, unfortunately. >> that brings me to the letters and the outreach that you have done to officials trying to say, hey, more people need to have access to this drug, t-pox, more people...

Supports in place for people who have to leave their jobs. >> what's the treatment, dr. patel? >> there is a treatment reserved for more severe cases. the treatment that i'm personally familiar with are self-limited. they can be very painful rashes. we're reserving the treatment, it's called t-pox. we're reserving that for more severe cases. it's an oral treatment that you don't need to take at home but by and large most cases resolve on their own but it can be be very painful going through this with a rash or other symptoms. >> you talk about isolation. now we have children diagnosed with mon...

As well as other viruses circulating in new york city. >> is there any truth to that whatsoever? dr. michael? no, it's a hyperbolic overreaction. you know, it was a case of monkeypox in dallas last summer paper by birao and colleagues are published april of 2020 two. a man from africa, he has lots of contact. he went to atlanta. dallas wasas all over the place, finally hospitalized. he was treated with the drug t pox t government.t. it works fine. but the important thing, laura , they did all the contact tracing. he came in contact with tons of people. nobody got it. gentlemen, it's always gre...

And we need to get back in the room then be talking about this. the way this is being done right now, the president has dug in. i will say what i don't understand is when the senate passed a bill two weeks ago identical to a bill that passed the house, both of them come in the senate it 98 to two. why can't we reopen the government? gillian: you say -- you say the liability for the president but it's also true democrats have the house. the longer this goes on, the shutdown, the more reliability this is for democrats. the buck stops with them now. nancy pelosi is the one that can make a deal. t...