if you look at what we have been dealing with covid versus influenza. the reason we accept there will be an annual flu season is because we have a vaccine and tampa tamiflu. pfizer just today got this emergency use authorization. in a study of 2200 high risk individuals, it decreased hospitalization and deaths by up to 89%. will we be able to get this medication into the hands of out patient doctors so patience can take it early on? it has to be given within 3 to 5 days? the government has a contract of about 10 millions courses of
covid versus what looked like at the time new york doing it well. of course, we came to find out that new york actually wasn t doing it particularly well, especially when it came to nursing homes and that seemed to be sort of the tip of the iceberg here or maybe where i will mix metaphors where the dam broke to speak. once that investigation started and then you started to hear these allegations about shower. it all sort of snowballed at once, and i do think that the uberous was a big piece of what made this more challenging for cuomo because he was seemed to be absorbed in all of it. shannon: bill bennett from what we have heard every time wee he was confronted and yesterday with this very thorough investigative report that he authorized by the attorney general is that he doesn t intend to go anywhere. we can have a number of democrats step forward and say it s time for him to resign he has got to go. but they know, probably, as he does, he doesn t intend to do it. so short of imp
misinformation of covid underplaying this in children. the question is, what s the risk of kids in covid versus other conditions like the flu, like other things. and the answer is that covid can be tough on kids and kids do get really sick. obviously we should continue to do everything we can to protect children. i don t have any idea that delta variant is particularly bad for kids but it is a serious thing for children and blowing it off and downplaying it i don t think is a useful tactic. you ve been a level-headed barometer for us dr. jha over the last year and a half. where do you think we are as a country looking at the number of unvaccinated people getting sick, the delta variant infiltrating those states where not enough people have been vaccinated. what s the snapshot of where the country is? i have to tell you, i m worried about where we are, and i haven t felt like this the last six months.