antiviral covid pills, but the reality is that many of the tools remain absent. vaccination rates waned in recent months. at-home tests are difficult to find for so many and the fda still hasn't authorized covid pills that could be incredibly effective. so the question now is how can the administration sue the american psyche as these variants threaten more months of covid pain and anxiety? joining me cnn's chris salizza. thank you for coming on. >> hi. >> they are making efforts to get ahead of the pandemic in every country, i want to be clear on that. but the bottom loon is that president biden campaigned on getting rid of it. since april his approval rating has fallen 12 points. how big a problem is this for the president? >> i mean it is a huge problem, and i think that you can't blame this on joe biden. we are dealing with an infectious disease the likes of which we haven't seen in 100 years.