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Covid, and 12 died of covid, and half of them took paxlovid, eight were hospitalized and none of them died. that's a pretty dramatic difference, and there's one thing, in the clinical trials, people took it within five days of feeling symptoms of covid. you need to know you have symptoms, act on it, get tested, you need to call the doctor, the doctor needs to call it in. that is a lot to have happen within five days, especially given the testing situation in the united states, so that is one concern about this pill. we'll see how it works when it comes out in real life rather than just clinica...

Journalist shows you. this keeps going. some of these folks have been waiting here now for three hours, stephanie. this is the frustration that is mounting. several days air go mayor bill de blasio urged the biden administration to get a handle on this testing situation and this is the result. there is a lot of frustration from the folks that have been waiting in line here for several hours already in freezing temperatures. now, another point i want to make, stephanie, new york's governor has said because there is a lot of concern about parents and schools and what might happen on next coming ...

Opposition and contempt for testing, we didn't. it's a year and a half later. we're well into the biden administration, one fourth of the way into his term and we have terrible testing capacity. this is the kind of thing that's going to help americans navigate a holiday season, navigate a variant as transmissible as omicron. it's something he's going to have to acknowledge, we're not a year ago, it's not as scary but people can avoid spreading this around by taking precautions but also getting tested. and the government is going to have to act with the private sector to fix the testing situati...

193 staff tested positive yesterday, 378 students. i talked to some parents in line this morning at this covid site to talk about the situation rear in. >> the fact he can't get vaccinated isn't a big deal for him. but the fact he could be carrying and his grandmother is supposed to come for christmas and we are trying to figure out what to do about that is a little bit stressful. >> i think the testing situation is really bad and needs to be remedied. this is just the beginning of what we are going to have to live through for the next few months. >> jen psaki said tomorrow night the president...

Recognition of the value of vaccination in the context of this pandemic. and, look, we're headed into a holiday season, and nobody wants this to be the holiday season where there was an outbreak in the family and potentially somebody got really sick and there was a bad outcome. we want to protect ourselves. there is still time. please, if you're out there, you're watching these curves, maybe in a part of country where omicron hasn't started to spread as quickly as it has in new york city, for example, please make the right decision. go get your vaccination. if you haven't gotten your first two...