. . rachel: good good morn america. it is 6:00 am here in new york city. that was your national anthem. i m so happy to welcome joey, brian to the couch today. brian: that was live. i wasn t aware it goes from one nation do this. rachel: you are american history. that is why we do that. brian: i don t think that is the reason. what did you think about, the way to open the show. brian: i did not know you did it. i did not know you get real viewer pictures so people mail in different photos. joey: first time i filled in on the show, it wasn t viewer pictures but dogs. then it was cats. somebody complained about cats. rachel: we did all babies, all dogs, and because of pete we did cats. the ratings changed. started the cats. love the photo of the couple picking blueberries in the summer. nothing more american than that. that is what we do ends. brian: that is what we do. nothing more american than picking blueberries. i don t foe what kind of traditions you have in your ho
maybe we re getting off paxlovid getting too quick. same thing happened to anthony fauci and others and number two is, and number two is, just it s so strong, it suppresses the virus but it doesn t get rid of the virus? that s right. it suppresses the virus. what people forget, brian, is that paxlovid was studied in non-immune, high-risk people and that is where the benefit was found but because of this, sort of disproportionate enthusiasm to give it to everybody, people are on it and there is broad announcement everybody needs to be on it. one of the consequences is, more and more papers are coming out that virus is getting smatter and it might help mutations virus. i don t understand the giving paxlovid to everybody. not every doctor would prescribe
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it is a false construct. it should be more medically precise as the immune and non-immune. i want to ask you a bigger question. the surgeon general was trying to sound optimistic about the future. take a listen to what he said. certainly i can understand that fatigue and frustration that many people have where we are in the pandemic right now. it has been almost two years. we ve lost so many people and our lives have been changed fundamentally. those struggles shouldn t obscure one critical thing which is that we have made tremendous progress in the last two years as well. he goes on to say the pandemic is going to end. i m curious, though, dr. makary at this point two years in, is it reasonable for americans to start asking when the pandemic is going to end?
drug? they re is going to be 10 million produced by merck by the end of the year, but we nee the fda to greenlighted based o the trial results and in the interim were hearing the false construct of the vaccinated in the nonvaccinated and we should be talking about the immune, an non- immune. this therapy by merck announced today was one of what would be several tools in a toolbox to treat covid 19 and downgrade downgraded to mild illness. steroid inhalers have been show to reduce complications. saline sprays has been shown to reduce hospitalizations. so when hiv hit we had heard from our public health leaders, that it was going to be an hiv vaccine that allowed us to manage it. it was a combination of therapeutics in that combinatio is emerging right now with covid . imagine if we waited for an hiv vaccine and withheld approval for therapeutics for