An experimental treatment from Shionogi & Co Ltd has shown rapid clearance of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new data, the Japanese drug maker said on Sunday.
isolate for five days, but there was not any guidance to get a test. tonight, what they re now saying about tests, saying you can get one after five days, but that if you get it and it s negative, you should still take precautions. so, dr. jha is here, what does this all mean tonight? and what kind of test is best to determine whether you re still contagious? and of course, all of this comes as the u.s. now averages nearly half a million new cases a day. the cdc estimating 95% of them are now omicron. the lines for testing are growing even longer. tonight, president biden announcing he will double the purchase of pfizer s new covid pill, that anti-viral pill, the first of its kind, now 20 million doses purchased, though most won t be available until after this current surge. it comes as hospitalizations among children now soaring, record numbers. at texas children s hospital, for one, the numbers quadrupling there in a month. so, as i mentioned, dr. jha is standing by here, but first,
at the same level. i don t know why it took them 12 months to figure this out. lauren: let s take this a step further because everyone is talking about the covid pill from pfizer specifically, it s really effective. guess how many doses the admits ration has ordered? 10 million, that s it. we need much more than that. then there s the monoclonal from vero biotech and only 50,000 doses are on hand. we had omicron in the u.s. for 21 days and we are far behind. there s a lot of blaming going on. i don t hear a thank you, thank you to the american people for everything that you have done, how you ve changed our lives. for the past two years, i don t hear that. i hear a lot of blame. kayleigh: and those are staggering numbers, you need far more than 10 million, you need a billion. so what way low. resident biden said he s going to shut down the virus and on