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for them, the virus resembles a typical flu. children face more risk from car rides than covid. byron? yeah. that article mentioned the spring. it feels like we have taken a giant step backwards here with teachers unions. cases, you know, cases skyrocketing and teachers unions showing that they are in charge certainly in democratic constituencies and what s come out of the white house is a plea for more time. i mean, the entire thrust of what president biden said yesterday was please give us some more time, we need more time will pfizer pill, widely distributed. he has been in office nearly a year and his campaign was based on the idea that he, joe biden, was an experienced hand. he knew government. he knew how to make it work and to deal with the crisis like this. and now you have had his vice president say they were surprised by the delta variant. they are surprised by the
and even in the outpatient setting, compared to a year ago. one of the things it s different, the means that we have to treat people. we did just see this announcement that we re doubling the order of the new therapeutics, with anti viral pill. i have to ask you, does that mean will get it any sooner? obviously, means we re going to get more, in the end, but are we going to get access to significant ember of doses any faster? we re going to get some sooner. supply will still be very tight, in the near term. we ll have about 200,000 courses in the next month. next, we get to 650,000 courses by. march by april, we get to 2 million. that s when things open up. by june, will have the first 10 million, mid september, will have 20 million. the most important thing, in the meantime, even if you don t have access to that pfizer pill, there are three other treatments.