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>> hopefully before long. at this time if we're having this conversation in 12 months, 2023, i suspect that's going to be different but not right now, you're right. >> okay. so if you start feeling bad, it could come on very quickly. you said flu and covid kind of could come on in 48 hours to three to five days. what do you do if you feel bad? do you just go do a home covid test to start things off? and if it isn't covid, how do you know that it's the flu and not a cold or the cold and not the flu? >> it's all a good point. especially because we have treatments that are pretty effective for flu. in this case tamiflu. in the case of covid, we have, for example, pfizer's oral antiviral pill paxlovid.
case. >> i was struck yesterday. yesterday was thanksgiving day and it was also six months since the massacre in uvalde, the 24th of may. jonathan, could these new comments by the president actually have a political effect on, for example, georgia where the issue of guns and the second amendment is a big issue? >> certainly, jose, this is not a new position for the president. but any time there are fresh remarks made about an issue like this, it's a hot-button one that gets voters excited, there's certainly the possibility that we're going to hear those replayed in the georgia senate race. i think the president was expressing frustration. i don't think anybody who's watched the gun control debate over the last 30 years thinks that there's anything that's going to happen in the lame duck session. that assault weapons ban that passed in 1994 had a sunset
and rsv. the department of health and human services says 76% of hospital beds nationwide are full, 76%. experts believe that holiday travel and large family gatherings may worsen this tripledemic and push hospitals to the brink. joining us now is a critical care pulmonologist at the university of washington and an msnbc contributor. i thank you always for your time, doctor. so, covid-19, rsv, and the flu share some common symptoms, right? but what are the main differences that we should all be watching out for? >> jose, good morning. great to see you. and you're right. they all do share common symptoms for your viewers out there, they could all cause sniffles. they could in some cases cause cough. we know that covid and flu, for example, more likely, especially in adults, it can cause shortness of breath.