everyone who tests positive you could send them one of those tests to test at day five. we should be sending it to the elderly and those with co-morbid conditions to test early and get the pfizer or merck drug. we re seeing no indication of leadership, just more confusing guidelines from the cdc. dana: it is shocking. the cdc is the center for disease control. you need the public to trust them. the president said this again yesterday call for two. this is where he said something hundreds of times before. i took exception to it. watch here. president biden: there is no excuse. no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we have to make more progress. and for patients who still haven t gotten your kids vaccinated please get them vaccinated. dana: does that still hold water? i spent christmas week sicker than i ve been in decades and i have had all the shots even the
themselves, particularly monoclonal antibodies, i know that not all of them work against omicron as well as they did against delta and the other variants, but we need more of those. i know of a hospital westchester that has zero monoclonal antibodies, and these new drugs, the pfizer drug, the merck drug that you can take in pill form. how soon do you expect those to come online or to be available again? so my hope is that they will come rapidly available. know some of them have been fka approved, and fda approved, and it s difficult to know why established therapies, for instance, regeneral ron, which was the first to be note, are difficult to questions to access. and some of that, i think, has been a heavy focus on vaccination, possibly without giving the same attention to therapeutics. and so vaccination is very important, and we are in a much better position than we were two years ago, and that is only going to continue to improve. one of the vulnerabilities i m
these things, that drugmaker talking about that pfizer drug. i feel incredibly bullish on the prospects for that drug, just because it s clinical trials data was so impressive. the unanimous recommendation from vaccine advisory group, that it should be approved. the fact that it is easy to administer. three pills twice a day, five days, you re don. such effectiveness. three days after symptoms s, may be hard to do, but still show some effectiveness. people get to five days after symptoms. there s so much good to say this about the pfizer pill, and how many lives it could save. the only part about it is how few doses there are. i know the united states government is buying up everything that we can, are we at the physical, and scientific limit, in terms of what can be produced, in terms of that pfizer drug? i know there s a lot of the merck drug, which has a lot of is a less appealing in a lot of ways. but that pfizer pill is so
the only part of it i despair of is how few doses there are, and i know the united states government is buying up everything we can. but are we at the physical and scientific limit in terms of what could be produced in terms of the pfizer drug? i know the merck drug was appealing in a lot of ways, but the pfizer pill is so promising and a game changer as you say. anything we can do to get more made? we are working day and night, and pfizer are working day and night, and they have accelerated, but the chemical synthesis takes eight to nine months, and we will have 265,000 doses in january, but we ll be in the millions by april. reporter: will the administration have sort of a communication plan, a messaging plan to let people know about
changer. just as a lay observer of these things, that drug you re talking about, that pfizer drug, i feel incredibly bullish on the prospects for that drug, just because it is clinical trials data was so impressive that unanimous recommendation from the vaccine advisory group that it should be approved, the fact that it is easy to administer, it is three pills twice a day, five days, boom, you re done, just such effectiveness, three days after symptoms, is, you know, maybe hard to do, still shows some effectiveness and people get it five days after symptoms. there is so much good to say about that pfizer pill and how many lives it could save. the only part about it that i despair of is how few doses there are and i know that the united states government is buying up everything we can there, but is there are we at the physical and scientific limit in terms of when what could be produced in terms of that pfizer drug? there is a lot of the merck drug, which has a lot is less appea