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It's an impressive medication, an impressive drug in terms of its ability to reduce severe illness by 90%. it would be given to people with moderate and mild infection to prevent them from further deterioration. so it's important to point out this is not for preexposure to the medicine. so it's not like a medicine you can take before you visit somebody or after you've been exposed. only for those with mild and moderate symptoms. and it's basically right now being excluded from people with severe illness because the thinking is it may not have a big impact. the other consideration, it has to be...

They are given very, very early on in the illness, because it's only affecting the virus replication phase. so as the illness proceeds, you get a host inflammatory response and the drugs will be much, much less effective. the thing i worry about is the wrong message going to be sent which is hey, i don't want to get the vaccine but i will just take the drug instead if i get sick. it doesn't work that way. the drugs are not a guarantee by any means and you have to give it super early on in the course of infection. it's a backstop. it's not the primary mode of controlling this virus. you need to...