washington d.c. has a relatively small population, and when big things happen to small populations, things can look warped when you look at the chart, and honestly, look at the chart and washington d.c. and the new covid cases. this is the washington d.c. chart of new covid cases reported overtime. look at the right side of that graph. it looks like a glitch. it looks like somebody dropped it. right? but that is not a typo. that is real and if you want a slice of life in washington in terms of people who live and work in washington d.c. who you heard of a lot of high-profile cases, senator cory booker, senator elizabeth warren, and senator koontz, and this week we have news from the white house that the staffers who work with president biden and
that have done so well for so many people over all these recent months, the bad news about them right now is that the two most commonly used ones, the one from lily and the one from regeneron, they don t work against the omicron variant. that said there is a third monoclonal anti bodies, that when made by glaxosmithkline, that one is harder to get. but that one does work against omicron. and there is a very interesting story about the administration realizing that early on, as soon as omicron reared its head. the on the initiation has been trying hard to marshal its resources of that one monoclonal antibody that still works. they ve had interesting decisions as to what to do with the very limited amount that we have. on top of the monoclonal antibodies, yesterday and today, the fda approved to different drugs that you can take at home. anti viral pills that you can
talking about is john lewis. of course, john lewis was not a senator. what did he say there? senator lewis, one of the greatest senators who have ever been. he was never a senator. he served in the house of representatives for three decades. to put his name on a bill for voting rights, i think that s a shame. it just doesn t fit with what john lewis stood for. voting rights was the cornerstone of john lewis s life s work. he was one of the key figures responsible for the landmark 1965 voting rights act. even if you can t wrap your head around, that it really is this next part of the herschel walker interview that will make your head spin. let s go to the writing rights. if you want to get to vote, first, you want to encourage people to vote, that s the most impressionist thing that you have.
voting rights was the cornerstone of john lewis s life s work. he was responsible for the landmark 1965 voting rights act. and even if you can t wrap your head around that, it s this part of the interview that will make your head spin. you want to talk about voting, first of all, it s legal to vote, and you want to try and encourage people to vote. that s the most precious thing you have. and you get things done now. don t talk about it after or during. get it done right now. and why don t we go in and get the ids and get it done right now instead of waiting until it s time to vote and start talking about it, and i think that s what people got to remember. that s what people got to remember. you got it?
and the lilley were not going to work, and we pulled back for a number of weeks the gsk monoclonal, and that allowed us to have more that we shipped out this last week. we are shipping out more we have about 300,000 regimens in january. we just bought another 600,000 for the first quarter. you know, we re buying everything we can get our hands on. but the important part, as you put up your graphic again, you see that those monoclonals are only they are very important. but the great news is, you know, we have now that medicine for our patients. we have oral antiviral, two that were approved yesterday