and judy fisher and associate professor of micro biology and immunology from georgetown university medical center is with us to talk about it from alexandria virginia. just to make sure julie that i'm getting this right, a vaccine is precautionary. this pill would be i treatment. if i got coven, i would take the pill immediately. in theory. that's exactly right. the vaccine prevents infection. the, the, the treatment that was just approved by the u. s. f. d, a under what's called an emergency. this authorization is intended to be a therapy for the people who are at highest risk progressing to severe disease or even to death if they are infected with covered $900.00. and so what do you make of it? i mean, the, the fact that we are even talking about these things. we talked about vaccines, you know, less than a year after cove. it came out and now a pill, 2 years later, what's your take on it all? on one hand, we are making amazing progress at a speed that is completely unprecedented. the speed of developing these novel therapies, when you compare it to other viruses, for which we have reall