that pretty. guest: emergency use authorization for the first ever oral treatment for covid-19. the antiviral bill is being described as a five recovered f. [inaudible]. and reduces the risk of hospitalization by 50 percent and the significance here while those treatments are in infusions merck s treatment can be taken orally at home reducing the burden on hospitals across the country rated the government expected to order 1.7 million when and if authorization is granted and regeneron is developed a drug cocktail of their own medicine to be effective and so effective that the government just ordered another 1.4 million doses of their antibody treatment. and now a state and local and federal lawmakers pushed back the mandate, the therapeutics to treat those infected, could be
this is not a bad thing on facebook. it s part of a drug cocktail that people with covid do get in other parts of the country other parts of the world, especially parts of the world that do not have access to the vaccine. they would love that but they have to treat it with therapeutics that are still experimental. they re not banning this but in these facebook pages like the biggest page is called ivormentin which has zero doctors. it s people telling people how to ingest it and how to take it. there s one people keep saying it s like a jelly or something. they don t know how to use it. mix it into your guacamole. people who i m sorry. you ve heard people say this, i can t take the vaccine, that s experimental. yes. are going on facebook and taking something that is in an experimental cocktail in other countries and saying, well, i m willing to take that. is it a jelly? that s what they re doing? yeah.
cocktail can now be fully used. it is important to clarify, this product from regeneron is not a substitute for vaccines. california reporting over 10,000 new cases today. the last time the single day count was over 10,000 was february 12. we have team coverage is covid numbers continue to rise once again. abc7 news reporters stephanie sierra takes a look at the new report on just how contagious the delta variant is, but we begin with reporter lyanne melendez with a pending announcement in san francisco. reporter: here is the situation. even if you get more people vaccinated tomorrow, it will be more than a month before they are protected from covid. the health department knows this and that is why a mask mandate for san francisco and other counties is all but certain. at this point, they say mitigation is key.
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