were in place. i think boris johnson i think borisjohnson has set the tone for his government and he lives by one rule for him in another room for everyone else. people can see through that now and it s incredibly hard to believe that no one in government knew that these parties were happening and there is a huge amount of evidence now. i do believe that the investigation is evidence there that they need to carry that investigation out very swiftly to restore the public trust and the end over that evidence to the police. because nobody has broke the law. let s get some of the day s other news. the world health organisation has issued the emergency approval of a new coronavirus vaccine in india. covovax has been produced by the serum institute of india. it s part of the covax portfolio, an initative to vaccinate more people in lower income countries. a popular tourist island is among areas left devastated
there is good news in the covid fight today, but that good news comes with sobering context. new data from pfizer indicates its new covid pill is 89% effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths if the pill is taken within a few days of the onset of covid symptoms, and the company says its tests show the pill works. it works against the new omicron cases and pfizer seeking emergency approval from the fda. let s get important insight and perspective from the executive associate dean at emery university school of medicine. dr. del rio i want to put up what pfizer says. 9% lowers the risk of hospitalization and death and ten time decrease in viral load by day five. great to have a new covid pill, if you will, one year to the day after the new vaccination but listen to dr. scott gotlieb. he says we need things like this because we re not closing the chapter on covid. we won t ever be able to snuff this virus out. it s going to be a long fight,
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has given emergency approval to the registration application of two COVID-19 me
time be effective. we re safe, somewhat, with omicron, but katy, there will be other variants and vaccines make the most sense to protect against them. let me talk about the therapeutics. from what i understand, they need to be taken relatively early on in the illness. if you re the kind of person who isn t going to get a vaccine, i m wondering if you get sick, that you re also going to not take these pills that have emergency approval. people think of the pills, and it s the same thing with people who called me early on and wanted prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin which had no foundation and continues to have no foundation in science to prevent or prescribe. i do think there s somewhat of this political alignment for reasons i still don t understand. vaccines seem to be a toxic subject. but for some of those individuals, taking a pill seems to be more palatable and it feels like that s something i ve
for emergency approval for its pill before thanksgiving and a decision could come as soon as a few weeks. those are your headlines. pete: we just said it pfizermectin. rachel: that s what the babylon bee says. pete: now we have a pill for it sell it for a lot of money. all that other stuff that you could have taken don t pay attention to that. rachel: those were horse pills. will: generic priced pills horse pills. pete: savior. will: big week critical race theory took center stage in the election. last night bill maher clashed with a professor who argued that parents just don t understand what cr. it is. check out bill maher vs. michael eric dyson last night on hbo. the point is that parents who were spooked by critical race theory, none of whom can define it when you ask them what it is