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Now on one of the relatively less travel days. examine also eve historically has less busy than ours, but you also have to consider that a lot of people have already made it to their destinations, so what will it look like in the next few days or week if this continues to happen, if people continue to test positive for covid-19. are there going to be enough staff at these airlines to get everybody back home. >> a rare consideration we have to make for this. kathy, what, 44,000 cases in the state of new york just yesterday alone, which is mind blowing. what are you hearing now from officials ab...

Use authorization. could that stave off the serious effect for the sickest patients if there is enough supply? and also, tell us about the interactions with other medications that people have to be concerned about such as statins and blood pressure medications in general. >> right. so these pills could not have come at a better time. of course as you mentioned, there are supply issues, but they are the first medication that can be taken by mouth. both require a prescription by a health care provider. that is one potential barrier, and then obviously we know the testing situation. people need t...

Of the essence. how are they going to pull this off? >> right, steph. a lot of potentially good news or good signs on the horizon but still a lot of challenges ahead. you mentioned these pills from pfizer. the administration has spent $10 billion on new drugs and treatments. they hope to have 10 million courses of treatment by late summer of just this pfizer pill, which appears to be a game changer, but to get to that point, the administration is going to need to help pfizer speed up manufacturing and production they said yesterday because that is a big challenge for the company. they've also ...

Green lit it. the vote was very, very close. but to have both of these pills available could really make a difference in the treatment of covid-19. the safety concerns weren't so much immediate safety concerns, they were more in some ways theoretical concerns, if you will. now, availability is really going to be the question here. how quickly can the government get this out on the market? also these pills need to be taken just within days of feeling symptoms of covid-19 and getting tested and knowing that you have covid, that's going to be tough given the current testing situation. jim. >> yea...

Died. but i'm going to give you a caveat here, and this is an important one. these are results of taking within eight days of symptom onset. you have to move quickly with this pill. you have to feel symptoms, go ahead and get a test, call a doctor, get a prescription. it can be really tough of getting all that done within five days of feeling symptoms, and if you wait too long, this pill is not going to work too well, and given the testing situation in this country and health care resources being so strapped, it's unclear whether this is going to happen quite as quickly as everyone would like....