are both treatable with the pfizer pill, a tamiflu like drug, where looking for it, the pcr test people get look for multiple different viruses. dr. agus n lilia piece we heard over 5,000 schools closed down in-person learning because of concerns of covid. what do we need to know moving forward when it comes to keeping chish safe and in school. closing an entire school is a drastic measure. the hope is we don t have to go there often. with testing at least twice a week we can identify children who are infectious and keep them home and hopefully keep the schools open. the key is going to be testing. all right, dr. david agus, thank you. today government officials in kazakhstan claim the country has been stabilized. the announcement follows days of violence fueled by antigovernment protests. officials also reported at least 164 had 164 people have been killed. security forces backed by russian troops have been given shoot to kill orders. now to the crisis in eastern
saying we are so tired of this. brian: make your own decision. steve: we are frustrated with it the whole thing is omicron, the only thing that works against omicron is the black cowan at this bodies and the pfizer pill and we don t any of those. ainsley: we don t have them. steve: when it comes to delta the shots actually did provide protection. people are just frustrated. keep in mind. it is still killing 10,000 people a week. 10,000 people a week are dying from covid i had it worst cold in my life. ainsley: it is different. brian: survivability 98%. want to live your life running around hiding for two and a half years? are you kidding? 100 percent right. steve: i m not hiding i m being careful. a lot of people. anytime my 60 s. a lot of people over 60 are being careful because they don t want it and it s killing 10,000 people a week.
in i was elected to four years. i have got plenty of time to do it. but, you know, whether for the most part, the number one thing he has done well on is to your point, brian, covid. and now they are sending out all of these tests. apparently too late for the omicron for the most part. but they have got these antiviral pills. the pfizer pill, and because it s a verizon, that s what you want. you want those. you want them to use you want the president to announce we re rolling out the defense production act so that we can get all those pills to all those people because, omicron only reacts to that pill. so, that s really how we turn the corner on it the other thing about inflation, when the average american, if they go out shopping today and they are paying as we heard from joe biden talking about his neighbor, yeah my neighbor told me in the sunroom that a pound of hamburger is 6 buck us. i had no idea. he had no idea how much stuff costs. do you think he asked the secret service f
between diagnosis and treatment. the pills are more effective when you get them immediately. the importance cannot be understated. it s great short-term playbook for the winter surges we ll experience in 22 and 23 and will innovate on cases down the road. version one will be dependent on more supply of the pfizer pill and a human being making sure it s safe for a person to receive the bill. but for all the viewers out there, version two, there will be ways to optimize this. perhaps this will be virtualized. all of you have probably taken a rap it test as home. pharmacists and prescribing authority is not thing. higher risk patients, grandma and grandpa, maybe we have a standing order prescription for you that if you feel you test positive come november 22 onwards. this is an exciting avenue to many different options down the road but really important, arguably the most important
area. and 81% of the country is vaccinated with at least one dose. we in the united states are going from a period of hiding from the virus to now living with the virus. we re doing this because we have immunity from vaccines and prior infection, and we have the pfizer pill. reporter: will there be another variant? i literally look daily at the across the globe in a database, and i will tell you the virus is think whiching as we speak. but it really is luck of the draw. reporter: what would you say tops the list of the lessons learned. we are concommunity. it matters not just what you do but what your friend does, what your neighbor does, what other countries do. reporter: and part of that, dr. agus says, is making sure the rest of the world is vaccinated, because those gaps, those places that are lagging in vaccinations is where new variant could pop up. adriana. diaz: lilia, thank you so much. strapt ahead on the cbs weekend news, one city finds an innovative way to h