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Hospital. but i am told a more formal update is likely to come later today, like the one we saw yesterday, both from the former president's team and from his doctors who describe his current condition but all indications so far is that his health indicators are trending in the right direction. they're encouraged by that, that he's on the mend, and could be released as early as the next 24 hours or so, alex. >> and you know, we should say, doctors are erring on the side of caution. not only is the former president 75 years old. he has certainly a history of heart problems. he's had a stint put ...

In the world, but we have the highest death toll in the world. we're leading by almost 10 million cases. it doesn't make sense and i hope that looking back on this, people realize that a lot of this was preventable. a lot of these mistakes were things that we created for ourselves and we really need to take the blame and be ashamed on how we handled this pandemic. >> and then in looking forward, how hopeful should we think that this merck pill might be bringing some real relief? now i understand it's administered if they were to receive the emergency use authorization, fda approval, then it's ...

It was in action. it was ineptitude. it was a fact that we don't have a true health care system as much as a sick care system. it was the inequities that were unmasked with all of this. i thought about this a lot, anderson. we work in a system and dedicate our whole lives to help save lives. it's very hard to believe that this many have died and so many of the deaths are preventable. >> that didn't have to happen. that's especially true now. i want to talk about the bill that is being reported a lot about today. wlst last hour, scott gottlieb said it would be a game-changer. i wasn't reading c...

If approved, this would be the first pill to treat, as i mentioned, but right now the only treatment options available are antibody treatments. can you explain to our viewers how the drug in this pill form would be different? >> well, right, thanks, dana. well, this is really exciting for a few reasons. when we think about it we don't have a lot of options for bills that treat viral illnesses. probably the one that people are most familiar with is tamiflu which treats influenza, but a lot of viral infections we really don't do very well with antiviral therapy. the fact that this is a medicatio...

Word out, steph, about fentanyl in particular and how dangerous it can be. some of the families i talked to believe that young people in their lives died after taking fentanyl, not realizing they were even taking it. it's in pill form now, in counterfeit pills that dealers are pushing as other things, like painkillers and you don't even know that you're getting fentanyl. part of it is roadwaying awareness about the dangers, at least for one population, and as the doctor said also, raising awareness about how to get help and talking about substance abuse and where people can find those resource...