we have all been waiting for. it has been a long time. we have not really been able to protect our little ones. and it s great to see this first step in terms of getting ready to have a vaccine that may be authorized for youths and little ones. we have had several runs of this in clinical trials that have not produced efficacy equal to the efficacy that we saw in clinical trials for older folks. right? and this has led to us not having a vaccine. the company s vaccine them a during a vaccine, is different from the pfizer one, which is already being used for younger people, not in that under six group. moderna is proposing a two dose regiment for children under six, one fourth the strength of an adult dose used. and a three dose regiment at one tenth the strength of the adult dose for another group. i understand this is a kind of naive question but i will ask it anyway. why does it seem so hard?
antibodies don t work. we don t have paxlovid. we have remdesivir. we have a very dangerous situation coming down in the country in the next couple of weeks. and by the way, all predicted and predictable. yes. well, that s another point. we have some good news with these two antiviral pills, one from merck and one from pfizer. the merck pill doesn t seem to be all that effective. the pfizer pill is effective. now we have new news that the one of the two drugs, the pfizer one in the anti-viral cocktail could cause severe interactions with widely used drugs including statins, blood thinners. if you add statins and blood
authorizing the numeric covid 19 bill, the pfizer one, is this a game changer? absolutely. this will keep patients out of the hospital, reduce risk of death, hospitalization, you have to start within 3 to 5 days and it has been shown to be very effective. hopefully i will be able to prescribe this to my patients for the next week or so. griff: great christmas advice to stay safe. merry christmas. benjamin: meteorologist adam klotz is here with our fox weather forecast. here s what we are looking at, a little snow in new york city overnight. 32 degrees, anywhere and it is rainy, to the west a lot of spots where early in the morning 50 degrees in kansas city.
and the health care systems and their fatigue, which is another problem. in general, problem with the health care system it is solely related to the punch in time for they lost a lot of people because they died in the early stages of the pandemic. you have people who are suffering from burnout and fatigue in all kinds problems. then you have people who are out of health care because they are try to take care of the kids or their dependents or other folks who come of their loved ones or because of problems with school closures and other issues related to the pandemic, they are now out of the health care system to be able to take care of them. this is actually something more than an isolated problem in health care. it s across the board. building back the trust requires a lot. absolutely paid what you make of the second antiviral that s just been given permission and been authorized by the fda? good news? i think it s great news. people tend to look at it like okay, it s not as effec
you said that michael flynn would come back even bigger and better. would you consider bringing him back and your administration? i would consider it. i think he s a fine man. would you have him back at the white house. i would. i think he s a great general. he s a great gentleman. while president trump was running for re-election last year, he talked more than once about how in a hypothetical second trump administration he would gladly welcome back his disgraced national security adviser michael flynn who pled guilty twice to charges. president trump pardoned him on the way out the door and didn t get a second term, at least not yet, but if there was one, mike flynn would be back in there because he s such a gentleman.