remdesivir was the first, and there have been others, and those had modest activity. the challenge with remdesivir is that it has to be taken by iv infusion, so you have to be in a hospital. more recently, there has been a protease inhibitor. the main targets people have looked at what replicates the virus, and the protease inhibitor targets that. pfizer received emergency youth authorization -- emergency use authorization for its protease inhibitor, and it is oral. so that is really exciting news. the world is beginning to really focus on the idea of, can you have a z-pak where you take one pill a day, and it either treats or protects you from the virus, and broadly, against coronavirus . that is the idea. and i think if that happens, if we do get a virus that the vaccines are relatively ineffective against, or for people who are immunocompromised or who we can't get the vaccine to, or who choose not to take the vaccine, then the idea of having a five-till z-pak for sars -- five-pill z-pak for sars-cov-2 or bacterial infections would be really interesting. you are ex

and then we offer remdesivir which by the way under the vaers deaths reported remdesivir.s trashing ivermectin and pushing more boosters. the response to covid has been insane and unfortunately it hasn't worked. >> maria: why does the administration not recommend things that are easily available like something like an ivermectin which has been on the market for a long time treating similar symptoms or like you just said remdesivir? pfizer is going to make 90 plus billion. they are going to generate 93 billion dollars in revenue on these vaccines in the coming year. this is really enriching these pharma companies. how come we're not using the drugs that are already on the market? >> because there's not much money to make in them. when you have the faucis of the world demanding double blind random control trials, those are expensive. and so it tilts the playing field in favor of new novel expensive drugs. of course that's where we're finally getting way too late in the process. they're dusting off a couple molecules they had on their shelves, both the merck and pfizer, 18, 1

and remdesivir is already approved and available in a gorsuch in a recent study showed dramatically -showed to dramatically decrease the need for hospitalization. guidelines for this will be examined by the nih guidelines committee and you will be hearing more recommendations on how to utilize these. i want to again reiterate what dr. walensky said about prevention, which is a multi-layered, comprehensive process, the hallmark of which is vaccination. one of the questions dr. walensky and i ended dr. murthy and others get asked -- dr. walensky and i and dr. murthy get asked frequently, what about individuals who are boosted to get together with family in the setting of a home? the answer is yes. an extra level of protection would be the testing dr. walensky mentioned, but i want to make sure this is not confused with going to a large gathering, and there are many of these, parties that have 40, 50 people in which you do not know the vaccination status of individuals. those are the kind of functions in the context of covid, and particularly omicron, that you do not want to go to. so, t

let's not forget about remdesivir. it is one you have to take iv over a three-day time period and you have to go into a clinic or hospital to get it and not as convenient as a pill, but it's still there and something that looks like it can work against omicron and, of course, then he talked about paxlovid, the new one that is coming out and hopefully by january get the 265,000 courses or doses that he was talking about that could be available by then. by that he means three pills twice a day for five days and 265,000 people will be able to take that by january. 10 million he said by summertime. but also mentioned it is a very complex system to develop this pill. so it's not as easy as going to another manufacturer and saying, here, we want you to start developing this even with pfizer who has everything set up takes six to eight months to ramp up and the other entities will take even longer. hopefully they can figure this out and get the 10 million pills by figured out, hopefully they can get the 265,000 by january. at

. >> gilead is recalling 15,000 viles of its covid drug remdesivir.y received complaints of glass in the viles. it could cause a stroke or death. gilead says that has not happened. on our web site, you can find the latest on covid-19. head to abc7news.com/coronavirus. r. >> the family of kevin eata. >> we have people who did videos their cell phones. >> he was shot covering a news reporter in oakland last week. his wife said know what happened would bring justice for her husband. and closure for their family. as they comfort one another. they are not forgetting the things that met a lot to kevin. >> it is really hard to see the dog, very sad as well. i always put her in his blanket so that she can still smell him. >> police are searching for a white 2004-2008 acura there is a reward for information leading to an arrest. >> city leaders are now scrambling to get more officers on the street. amid a surge of violent crime including 129 murders. the latest homicide claimed the life of an adult transgender person. more police on the streets sounds like a g

everyone is forgetting about remdesivir. it is still an antiviral. the difference is that it is given intravenously. you have to be in a medical clinic. whereas the other antivirals out there are pills that people can take. that was tricky. i apologize. b is actually true. for people to understand, people are getting back to their old ways and travel is happening. we talk about the fact that omicron can cause less severe disease but if you infect a large volume of people, you will get more disease. and c, we spoke about this yesterday, we still have inconclusive data -- conclusive data showing this. you could have more spread on an airplane. i was tricky. kristen: it sure was. i was 0-2 today but i want to point out that our viewer from palo alto was the lone correct answers so congratulations and perhaps, if you email dr. patel, he will email you -- send you a n95 masks. i do want to talk about travels at the holidays. with omicron, i am hearing you need better filtration. does that mean if you are on an airplane, in the terminal, that your cloth ma

we have other treatments, treatments like regeneron, remdesivir, we have treatments already in place. that is great news or something if you take 100 years back, no one would survive or so many even more people would die. within the hardship, there is good news. and yet we have to respect people who do not want to get vaccinated and we have to find ways, like green passports. green passports are a great tool to support people who want to get vaccinated and keep safe, go out and have a normal life, go to the nightclubs and it's ok to want to go to the nightclubs, the movies, the theater, and the museum. but for that you need to get vaccinated and have a green passport or entry. if you don't want to get vaccinated, we are going to respect that because we respect freedom of choice, right, however, if you are not vaccinated, hence you do not want to endanger yourself or put others at risk and put your community at risk, you stay at home. you protect yourself and you respect other people's wishes to stay safe and go outside. it's about respect and making informed choices and unfortunately,

treatments are on the horizon, like the oral medications, monoclonal antibodies, and an inhaler for remdesivir. >> going into the spring, we will be in much better shape. i am even more optimistic about late spring and summer. 4 there i say i see a smile on your face when you talk about 2022? >> you know, i do. i'm optimistic about the next six months. >> reporter: kiet do, kpix 5. >>> another big event being postponed in several san francisco because of covid. this time it is sketchfest. organizers posted this message for the 16 day event featuring live comedy and theater performances. it was supposed to start january 7. ticket holders will be notified of when it will be rescheduled. >>> in time, we could soon see pfizer booster shots for younger teens. the new york times reports the fda is rumored to expand eligibility for kids ages 12 to 15 in the coming days. when oakland students return to the classroom, january 3, everyone 12 and older must be fully vaccinated. the district says you can also expect a lot more testing. they are hosting a series of testing clinics from january 2nd through

. >> gilead is recalling 15,000 viles of its covid drug remdesivir. they received complaints of glass in the viles. it could cause a stroke or death. gilead says that has not happened. on our web site, you can find the latest on covid-19. head to abc7news.com/coronavirus. r. >> the family of kevin eata. >> we have people who did videos their cell phones. >> he was shot covering a news reporter in oakland last week. his wife said know what happened would bring justice for her husband. and closure for their family. as they comfort one another. they are not forgetting the things that met a lot to kevin. >> it is really hard to see the dog, very sad as well. i always put her in his blanket so that she can still smell him. >> police are searching for a white 2004-2008 acura there is a reward for information leading to an arrest. >> city leaders are now scrambling to get more officers on the street. amid a surge of violent crime including 129 murders. the latest homicide claimed the life of an adult transgender person. more police on the streets sounds like

sarah was given remdesivir and steroids which brought her back to health.shes she had gotten vaccinated. >> something that will stick with me is that, because i was positive, naomi -- i didn't get to meet naomi until ten days after she was born. that was a tough time that i would never want another mother to experience. >> every mom will tell you that would be hard. both sarah and baby naomi, you can see there, are doing great. sarah still lives in the bay area but since has moved with her family to placer county. >>> no surprise here, bay area house prices continue to rise. here's the newest numbers from october now. all nine bay area counties saw double-digit growth in the cost of single family homes. incredible to see that. alameda county up 20% from october of last year. napa county, prices went up 19%. solano county 18%. southland prices saw 18%. >>> people face fines of $200 if they use their outdoor sprinklers. that ban went into effect on thursday and lasts into may. people may now use spray hoses to water their lawns. they will cost you $250 fine i

hospitalizations giving hope, but the variety of vaccines and therapies, with monoclonal antibodies, remdesivir, and now the new pills available, all tools we didn't have last holiday season. >> the death rates are one 10th of what they were a few months ago. >> reporter: new tonight on kpix 5 news at 7:00 , we talked to the author of a study whose findings may well hold the key to get another treatment for covid-19. in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> today, sonoma county announced its requiring proof of a covid booster or twice weekly testing for workers in its schools. at the new rule takes effect on february 1. >>> today is one of the busiest days of the holiday travel period. oakland international saw a steady stream of people this morning, and airport experts anticipate about 370,000 passengers will come through between today and january 2. security checkpoint numbers indicate people are sticking with their travel plans, even as covid cases continue to go up. so we asked flyers if they are worried at all. >> of course, but we are all vaccinated and have our boosters. we have been

things like ivermectin and remdesivir. nothing has come out of congress that has placed those restrictions on treatment. so, i do believe people within those states need to go to their state officials and find out why they are not being able to get the treatments that they need and deserve. that is a state-by-state issue. i don't believe that is a federal issue restricting treatment. host: lizzie on the democrats line. caller: good morning, c-span. good morning, representative bill johnson. one of the questions, why don't you support the mandates? the situation in indiana and a lot of the republican states, most of them, there are more dead people in the republican states because of the disinformation being told to them. i think it goes on fox and their social media and other things. our government needs to do something about that. and, i think the ag should have an independent investigation on our own former president who inflicted this, you know, problem we had on the 6th, the insurrection. a bunch of the people in our g

sarah was given remdesivir and steroids which finally brought her back to health. will stick with me is that because i was positive, naomi -- i didn't get to meet naomi until ten days after she was born. so that was -- that was a tough time that i would never want another mother to experience. >> both sarah and baby naomi are now doing fine. sarah used to live in the bay area. she has since moved with her family to placer county. >> that baby is adorable. so sweet. >>> not going to be a hard knock life for you because we're going to tell you when annie: live will be right here on nbc bay area. that's next. ♪ it's a hard knock life for us ♪ ♪ it's a hard knock life for us ♪ ♪♪ >>> well, you just saw it. >> yeah. it's going to be so fun. >> for musical theater fans the sun will come out, not tomorrow, but tonight. >> yes, annie: live premieres tonight right here on nbc bay area. watch. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow, i love ya tomorrow ♪ >> can she belt that out? 12-year-old selena smith plays the title role. harry connick jr. will channel the role of daddy warbucks with taraj

there is no drug that came through -- i look at remdesivir. it was out in a month.s drug was developed first to fight sars-1. why it took 2 years from get -- they had it on the shelf in other words. why it took 2 years to develop, i don't know. it seems weird you got the vaccine quickly but 2 years to get the drug off the shelf. >> we talked about nova vax. tonight they show it is effective against omicron am they can't get the time of day from the fda? >> they haven't even filed with the u.s. fda yet. it's really bizarre. 1.6 billion? >> yes, in operation warp speed. >> the army at walter reed developed a traditional vaccine i think. is this something we should keep our eye? might this move faster since it was developed within the government? >> well, it hasn't gone through the human trials yet. it's hopeful but we have to make do with what we have now as best we can. >> doctors, thank you very much. merry christmas to both of you. joe biden announced yesterday he was mobilizing the troops. are they going to the border to china? nope. >> i directed the pentagon to

they have to go into the hospital and then if it looks like they get worse, let's hit them with remdesivir. host: ok we will hear from our guest. guest: there are several points that dan has made. in terms of natural immunity and natural immunity from infection does provide some level of perfection -- south protection, but scientific studies are showing that immunity erodes fairly rapidly, far more rapidly than the immunity required through -- acquired through a. there is certainly a third of americans have been infected and they carry some level of immunity, but as we are seeing with delta, with the breaker cases, after several months those protections fall away and we are seeing. we are at about 130 -- an arc of those current waves in america starts in the southwest and the four corners states and extends up to the upper midwest and into the northeast. 120,000 cases a day. at 1200 deaths. many, the vast majority of those cases are either unvaccinated or people who are getting reinfected who had some level of immunity protection from their earlier protections, but that is fallen apart. we

. >> well, gilead is recalling the covid-19 antiviral drug remdesivir the company says it to lots of the drug could be contaminated with glass particles. says its notified distributors and customers about the problem. the infused antiviral treatment can only be administered in a controlled health care setting like a hospital. the drug is the first antiviral medicine for covid-19 approved by the fda for people 12 and older. napa police need your help finding this man. take a good look. police say he is shad khan. investigators say he's been eating at several local restaurants. but then dipping out without paying his bill. so dine and dash officials say he stiffed several restaurants with that had been the last few days if you know where he is, call napa. police. to michigan now where suspected school shooter ethan crumbley in his parents remain behind bars. all 3 of them now on suicide watch. meantime, the school superintendent is calling for a 3rd party investigation to review the school's handling of the suspect. these are the mug shots of the suspected gunman's parents oxford high

remdesivir is the big one. over $3,000 a dose, when these cost 20 to 50 bucks total, part of a multidrug, multivitamin, vitamin d, zinc. remdesivir, 6,500 adverse event. i don't have it here, 1,600 trial deaths so far since it got emergency use. that's an average of 921 a year. that's remdesivir. let's look at the covid vaccine. this will shock you. it should shock you, because nobody's talking about it. when a guy like me talks about it, i get censorsed, vilified and attacked. 927,740 total adverse effects. remember, one of the criticisms is vaers dramatically understates the total number of events. total deaths, 19,532. i realize vaers doesn't prove causation, but almost 6,000 of these worldwide deaths occurred on days zero, one, or two following vaccination. i know fauci, i know jeants woodcock, i know -- janet woodcock and francis collins are not concerned about this. i'm concerned about this. other people who have been able to avoid the censors and see this, they're concerned about it. they're making those

. >> hydroxy 84 lynn, remdesivir.ics, aspirin, a whole set of of recipes. >> in the past, doctors have looked for off of the shelf products. that might help. here, all of a sudden they turned to poison, have you ever seen anything like this. >> no, i think seeing effects of a corrupted pharma playing field, you can alter the playing field in favor of your products, it is easy, you spend the money. mark: you know when you can save people's lives. the number one job of the federal government to protect american people, what you have the medical and scientific federal bureaucracy. getting behind certain drugs, and trying to destroy the efficacy of other drugs that is really remarkable. i have been taking hydroxy for a year and a half, i have heart disease and asthma, i feel fine. it has not done anything on to me or millions who have taken the pills over the course of time, so far, i have not gotten the virus, i have gotten the vaccine, that is my choice. but i am a pedestrian with these, and try to rationalize what is t

the company says it's recalling to lots of its drug remdesivir after receiving a complaint of glass particless, gilead says it confirmed the complaint. the recall. the recall rather involves 55,000 vials or enough to treat 11,000 people hospitalized with coronavirus. gilead says they have not received any reports of adverse events linked to the recall and the ceo says it will likely not impact supply of the drug. our tree for dozens of san francisco children just in time for the holidays coming up at 10. how glide help some kids cross items off their wish lists. what i really like about this is that we actually get to have a christmas spirit. and a bay area group that's been helping the community for years now forced to pay up six figures or move how they're not giving a pope how they're not giving a pope that their mission can continue. if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energiz

jobina: a drugmaker said it is voluntarily recalling 58,000 vials of remdesivir.pany said it has received a complaint about glass particles in its vials. the glass could reach blood vessels in the heart, which could cause a stroke or death. outrage and disbelief over the vandalism of a statue at one of san francisco's oldest museums. the greek statue on the grounds of the legion of honor was heavily damaged. members of the community are reflecting on the loss. >> oh my god. who would do this? >> he cannot believe it. he walks by this greek statue almost every day on the grounds of the legion of honor museum. the statue was vandalized. >> i do not know who these people are and what their end goal is, but this is a sham. >> it is really sad -- >> but this is a shame. >> this is a piece of public art that has been vandalized. >> a curator said vandals knocked the heads off of two sons of a greek god. >> it shows the with serpents and his sons. it is not a happy subject. >> here is what it look like in. the piece was given to the museum in 1930. curators say san franc

bay area based drugmaker gilead has issued a recall for the covid-19 antiviral drug remdesivir. the company says 2 lots of the drug could be contaminated with glass particles. gilead says it is notifying distributors and customers about the problem. the infused antiviral treatment can only be administered in a controlled health care setting like a hospital. the drug is the very first antiviral drug for covid-19 approved by the food and drug administration for folks 12 and older in less than 3 hours due to travel restrictions will go into effect for folks visiting the united states international travelers. the new restrictions are part of the biden administration's efforts to combat the new omicron variant kron fours. camila barco has the details. >> the rule for the past few months has been if people are flying to the united states. they must show proof of a negative covid test but starting on monday that deadline is getting tighter. the covid tests must be done within one day of boarding. their flight previously travelers had 3 days to obtain a negative covid test the new trave

it's been out there, but remdesivir said that the people in the new england journal found profound results to prevent hospitalization. so there's a range of therapy. there is one that is very important. there is a monoclonal that just got authorized, and that's the astrazeneca. and that's for prevention, even before you get infected for people who are immunocompromised. so those people who were afraid to go out, cancer, organ transplants, other reasons they are immunosuppressed, it doesn't amount to a vaccine but giving them the monoclonal will give them the equivalent of a vaccine and that protection. so many more therapies today that we had in the past that accesses the oral treatment and allow the public to easily use the outpatient therapy. as soon as we have enough of these, when that pfizer drug, when we have, you know, millions of doses a month, it will take a few months to get there, that's going to be a game changer. >> reporter: justs as a lay observer of these things, that pfizer drug, i feel incredibly bullish on the prospect for that drug because the clinical trial data was im

we have an fda approved intravenously administered antiviral called remdesivir. a number of monoclonal antibodies have been shown to be effective in both treatment and prevention of this disease. there are a number of others that are used late in the course of the disease to moderate the host responses such as the commonly used dextro method zone -- xo method zone -- however, most recently we have put a major effort into targeting vulnerable targets on the sars-cov-2 replication cycle, and designing drugs to inhibit these vulnerable targets. this slide may look confusing, but it is simple. the big circle is the sale and the body. the small circles are the virus. when the virus enters the cell, it goes through multiple processes for self propagation. these are shown in the yellow highlight. one -- inhibitors for the enzyme , which the virus needs to replicate, or plummet or barbara -- which is also needed to replicate. using this process, a number of drugs, the most afford in which have been identified to directly block the virus. one in particular is paxil did, a

this is the first new therapeutic to be approved since remdesivir and the monoclonal antibodies and could not come at a better time. the ability to prescribe people a pill that they can take in the comfort of their own home and help prevent hospitalization, and death, that could be transformational for the effect of covid on society. but as you noted, there are some issues. the first is, you have to take it relatively quickly after you get sick. and we have a lack of testing here in the united states right now. the second issue is that we're not going to have adequate supply for quite a while. they're saying we'll have around 65,000 doses this year. another 200,000 in january. that's just a drop in the bucket in the face of omicron. and the third thing is i worry that this pill is going to be available, largely to those with privilege, to the wealthy, and not to those who are at highest risk for those severe outcomes. >> that always is a concern in these situations. and doctor, omicron infections appear to be falling sharply in south africa, suggesting we could perhaps see a sudden drop i

the cdc and the fda for the last two years, that the review committees on hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir were loaded with pharma people, 11 out of 20 in the second committee. this has all been orchestrated from the top of nih and pharma. >> lisa: doctor, what kind of therapeutics are you seeing? is there anything promising that you've been looking at that we should be embracing now that we know that the vaccines aren't stopping the spread of covid? >> yeah, there's a whole bunch of them, and immediately when omicron emerged, our public health officials immediately start talking about additional vaccine boosters. where are now learning ten weeks after booster, that immunity goes down to 35%, the efficacy goes down to 35 and 45% depending on the vaccine you've got. there's -- it's been fda approved, there are solid, randomized controlled data. it noted against. i've never once heard dr. fauci say the word. many universities, including my own, included on its recommended therapeutics on their covid websites and there's of course the merck and pfizer pills, which we hear little about, but th

we have a new intravenous, the drug is not new, remdesivir has been out there. there was a paper in "the new england journal" yesterday, profound results for use as in and out patient to prevent hospitalization. there is a range of therapies. there is one that is also very important, there is a monoclonal that just got authorized and that's the astrazeneca and that's for prevention, even before you get infected for people who are immunocompromised. those people who have been afraid to go out, whether it is cancer or organ transplant or other reasons if they're immunosuppressed now can get something, not the response of a vaccine, but giving them that monoclonal will give them the equivalent of a vaccine and that protection. so, many more therapies today than we had in the past, that access to oral treatment will allow the public to easily use outpatient therapies. when we have enough of these, when that pfizer drug, when we have millions of doses a month, yes, it is going to take a few months to get there. that's going to be a game changer. >> just as a lay obse

may reduce the likelihood of having this serious illness and another drug we've had for sometime, remdesivir more recent studies shows much more effect in also doing that same thing as the pfizer drug does. now, take that in combination and we had more of it, we don't have much of eaither, we could turn this pandemic. if i could use an example of those in the business for a long time, hiv used to be a fatal disease. today in many parts of the world where you have adequate drugs, people live long, healthy lives with hiv. so drugs can be very important and in this case in the short term, we could possibly turn this pandemic into a much less serious event for people even if they did get infected. we want to prevent infections in the first place. that's our goal. if you can't prevent them, these drugs could be real game changer down the road. >> important analogy. d osterholm, the cdc is defending the push back it's getting to cut isolation in half for those asymptomatic but many are saying it's politics driving the decision and maybe a play for the midterms. did they follow the science or follo

this is really the first major new therapeutic that has been approved since remdesivir and the monoclonal antibodies. this has the potential to transform the way that we treat covid-19 among high risk and vulnerable individuals. imagine, you get sick with covid. you're someone who is high risk. you're obese. you're aged greater than 60. you're immunosuppressed. you have diabetes. if you're infected, your doctor can call in a prescription to the pharmacy and you go and pick it up. you don't have to go to the hospital, you don't have to go on an iv. but there are some big limitations. it won't be immediately available to all. it's expensive. it has side effects. and it interacts with a lot of common medications and medical problems. so it's going to be out of reach for a lot of folks, unfortunately. >> and to be clear, because i don't want to give folks the misimpression that this is a substitute for vaccination, in other words sit back, and see what happens with infection, this is just if you're in the unlucky group that contracts this and faces the prospect of serious illness. >> that's r

we have remdesivir.ngerous situation coming down in the country in the next couple of weeks. and by the way, all predicted and predictable. >> yes. well, that's another point. we have some good news with these two antiviral pills, one from merck and one from pfizer. the merck pill doesn't seem to be all that effective. the pfizer pill is effective. now we have new news that the -- one of the two drugs, the pfizer one in the anti-viral cocktail could cause severe interactions with widely used drugs including statins, blood thinners. if you add statins and blood thinners and antidepressants, most of america is on that. >> that would disqualify just about everyone from getting paxlovin. what will turn out is there will be true contraindications for many of them and hopefully that will be very tiny. relative concerns which either can halt your other medications for a period of time or it will be recognized that it's not of concern enough so you continue to get the medicine. we will need some clarity on that

with this limited supply of the new tool, what we're going to face is what we face when rem remdesivir new. how do we get this to places where it will do the most good? we found so far is that states are allocating a certain amount and work with hospitals and clinics and others to try to get certain doses out to places where patients may access it. in this case, because the time is so short and because it's linked to testing as other things so quickly after testing or symptom onset, we need to make sure as we increase testing access, that we link that testing access to potential for those taking it are those who can access testing and those who have established medical care because they can call up their doctor and get a per prescription and these who don't have access can do that. we want to tell them more about the drug and linking sites that are testing to refer patients to where they can get treatment. >> so ideally, if somebody comes into a testing site or accesses testing somehow and gets a positive result, that person is also at the start of having symptoms. if they've got the k

i mean, i remember atd the tim because he was getting r remd remdesivir, which you don't get that and home afterwards. you stay in the hospital. the regimen he was getting made all the reporters covering him very skeptical about whether his health was in actually a much worse place. and the reporting -- well, the disclosures of this book seem to validate that. i got covid after that, but i know that if my blood oxygen level had been 86%, i would have been in the hospital a long time before then. it would have been an emergency phone call and an ambulance pickup. so i think there are concerns. the reason why anyone should care about this now is because if there is a 2024 campaign, we see now a pattern that the public story, the public messaging is much different than what's really going on behind the scenes. if that's true about a president's health, it could be true about other things. >> you know, i think that -- >>> we're getting in live pictures. that's president biden and dr. biden visiting the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c. today is december 7th. this is the 80th anniv

so he received remdesivir.e also received steroids, which the white house initially declined to tell the press. then they also treated him with a monoclonal antibodies, not yet approved by the fda. they were so worried about the president that they sought approval and delivery for this x pe experimental therapy because they feared for the president's life. >> regeneron is when he was in bed, before he went to the hospital. what does that tell you? >> regeneron, the -- the minn monoclonal antibodies from regeneron are a very effective therapy for people who are sick early in their illness, who have not yet developed their own effective antibody response. so, you know, it tells me that they worried about the survival of the president. but there is another revelation in that book which describes the white house doctors, at some point, considering putting him on oxygen in the white house and hoping for the best, which is shockingly reckless. you know, the president of the united states was 74 years old. obviously,

remdesivir or something of that nature.ility to cure somebody if they come into the hospital? >> we do have those treatments available. and our infectious disease colleagues who are brilliant, have vetted all of the evidence-based treatments that we're using. but the vaccine is the most effective measure that we have to prevent severe illness and prevent hospitalization and death. >> dr. essie reed, thank you for coming on. we wish you good luck and hope, hope, that your hospital does not get overwhelmed in the coming weeks with delta and now omicron. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thank you. >>> coming up, with the russians massing on the border, president biden speaks with the president of ukraine. my colleague richard engel is on the ground with troops in ukraine as they prepare for what could be next. on] ♪ i'm a ganiac, ganiac, check my drawers ♪ [sfx: sniffs / long exhale] ♪ and my clothes smell so much fresher than before ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ i'm a ganiac, ganiac, check my drawers ♪ ♪ it's a freshness like i'

remdesivir and other drugs, monoclonal antibodies, line up for them and we have difficulty schedules people for them because so many are unvaccinated taking those drugs available on emergency authorization but not take the pfizer approveds vaccination. it's mind boggle what's they choose to take and not take. almost -- the fact it's self-inflicted is the worst part of it, because it didn't have to be this way. more people vaccinated, a lot less problems in our hospitals. this is not sustainable forever. it's worse because this is a place where we have so much access to vaccines. getting more booster shots into people than first and second doses. it's just really paradoxical. >> so many sick people in africa don't have access to the vaccine, and people here are refusing it. doctor, sam, meg, thank you all so much. certainly made us smarter and safer this morning. >>> now we have to turn to the latest on the january 6th committee threatening to pursue criminal, i said criminal, contempt charges against trump's former chief of staff meadows if he doesn't show up for a deposition today.

of note, and under appreciated, remdesivir is already fully approved and is available in a three-day course, which in a recent study shown to dramatically diminish the need for hospitalization. guidelines on this will be now re-examined by the nih guidelines committee and you'll be hearing more about recommendations, how to utilize these. if i can have the last slide. i want to, again, just reiterate what dr. walensky said about prevention, which is a multilayered comprehensive process, the hallmark of which is vaccination. now, one of the questions that dr. walensky and i and d dr. murthy and others get asked frequently, right now as we get to the christmas holiday, and new year's, would it be safe for individuals who are vaccinated, who are boosted, to get together with family in the setting of the home. the answer to that is yes. an extra level of protection would be the testing that dr. walensky measured, but i want to make sure this is not confused with going to a large gathering. and there are many of these, parties that have 30, 40, 50 people, in which you do not know the vacc

. >> i know how to say remdesivir. >> a gilead drug significantly reduced hospitalizations in people recently diagnosed with the virus and at high risk of developing a severe illness. these results were published in the new england journal of medicine and the findings, results released by gilead in the fall remdesivir is currently used to treat patients who are hospi hospitalized it has to be infused, that's one of the problems it's not a pill. but the company is looking for approval to use it on less severe cases in people who are recovering from home and the latest study, the data supports that case >> how do we ramp up that paxlavid some people want to use the defense act to pump this out. >> i think pfizer has already been ramping up production hoping to get the approval >> unfortunately, though, they have not ramped up production nearly enough. if you look at the kind of numbers you can see in six months from now, it doesn't sound like enough -- it's clearly not enough to take care of the globe and probably not enough to take care of the united states. p you use the defense prod

we have other treatments, treatments like regeneron, remdesivir, we have treatments already in place. news or something if you take 100 years back, no one would survive or so many even more people would die. within the hardship, there is good news. and yet we have to respect people who do not want to get vaccinated and we have to find ways, like green passports. green passports are a great tool to support people who want to get vaccinated and keep safe, go out and have a normal life, go to the nightclubs and it's ok to want to go to the nightclubs, the movies, the theater, and the museum. but for that you need to get vaccinated and have a green passport or entry. if you don't want to get vaccinated, we are going to respect that because we respect freedom of choice, right, however, if you are not vaccinated, hence you do not want to endanger yourself or put others at risk and put your community at risk, you stay at home. you protect yourself and you respect other people's wishes to stay safe and go outside. it's about respect and making informed choices and unfortunately, still, certai

suddenly we find out about gilead, and that's been out there with remdesivir for ages the narrative isize that, what they should be doing, no one really knows. i blame the fda for putting out these things like, here's a press release. no, let's get some data. david, you just gave us more advice than the fda did, and you don't even play a doctor on tv >> no, just been dialed into this particular development for some time, as you guys know. >> but your reporting shows me that i can trust you more. >> you've been critical, and potentially for good reason. >> i don't play for dinner >> there would come a point in the not-too-distant future, where you do, in fact get covid, and a lot of this is dependent on testic, as we know. your doctor will prescribe that you teak one, if not both, of these antivirals at home, five-day course, and, you know, that bats down the virus very quickly. officely reduces transmidsibility very quickly, and you move on. as we said from the early days, a lot better than tamiflu, which many people still take when they get the flu. >> we've been waiting for these day

so show up, however you can, for the foster kids who need it most— at helpfosterchildren.com remdesivir and apple lower, netflix shares higher bucking the downward trend joining to discuss the sell-off is evercorps' mark mahaney it seems like there's kind of a confluence of macro factors throughout whipsaug the tech stocks how do you make sense of this and where do you see the buying opportunity, given the inflection point that we're in right now? >> thanks, leslie. we have seen a bifurcation in terms of tech stocks higher quality names have held up better in this market than lower quality names. it's true. you look at consumer tech where i focus, the stocks that have held up have been the google, amazon, facebook, apple of the world and it's the peloton, the newer companies, the companies that traded those price to sales multiples, not p/e multiples, much more challenged if you're worried about portfolios near term stick with the highest quality tech names in my space they have an acronym, f.a.a.n.g., i don't think that changes that much we're trying to get more offensive and look beyo