stop treat the virus. how will this help in the fight against the pandemic? fox news contributor dr. marty makary at johns hopkins university johns hopkins university. obviously i use the threat entry interchangeably there because we know dr. mccarrick, the virus works and a growing number of people in the population are getting the virus, giving the vaccine but when it comes to treating the virus once you get it, is this going to help fight the pandemic further? would appears so, sandra. the results of the formal randomized control were really dramatic. 762 people sick with covid with milder or moderate illness and the placebo group, 45 are hospitalized and eight died in the drug group. 28 were hospitalized and nobody died. when you have a drug that reduces death down to zero, now we will have to see if that is true in the larger population, but when you have a signal in
sandra: merck put out a statement. at the interim analysis, it reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by approximately 50%. 7.3% of patients who received this were hospitalized or die day 29 following randomization compared to 14% of placebo treated patients. this is former scott gottlieb how he sees the over all impact of the pill. i think they will provide psychological and this drug was probably the best data i have ever seen for orally available drug with respiratory pathogen. this pill could provide a real difference in how we address this virus given the magnitude, the effect it is having. sandra: that seems like a very promising outlook for this drug. the overall pandemic, dr. makary, you have been talking to the audience throughout the pandemic. how would you classify or how would you characterize where we
they return september 1st. and they also change the date that they said he disappeared and left one day early septembe. this memorial here that gabby still draws a steady stream of people and many stopped to tell us just how the case has impacted their lives. it is heartbreaking, me as a mother, my daughter, like saying she is america s daughter. and this is a young lady that had a whole life ahead of her. it is very heartbreaking. this makeshift memorial will be taken down tomorrow and replaced by something more permanent. sandra, back to you. sandra: steve harrigan from northport porta, thank you, john. john: a real tragedy is times square, dead after not to the ground by alleged mother in times square, the details on this horrible case coming up coming up. sandra: plus the fda to announce what could be the first pill to treat covid-19.
room and they would make your bd give you a clean towels. you see this throughout the economy and you are right, people have to wait forever to get something with her dishwasher, crew. look, inflation is rising and a big come up big political and economic problem for president biden. sandra: roberts, i have two seconds and i feel like you need to get in there. you are making these issues. but leashes with the hotel sandra: wow, personal jabs now at steeple for airline and hotel struggles. okay, our panel, we love you so much. i hope you end up in florida. at least steve doesn t have to sleep in dirty sheets tomorrow night. exclusive fox news video of brian laundrie s family clearing their front lawn after protesters littered it with laundry baskets. the family also removing a poster in memory of gabby petito to bring her justice straight
house or direct payments from the house and the incentive to work has been reduced. sandra: that is a big statement never a better time to find the job. the jobs are out there and really interesting that we got from that point from eight toy company ceo who joined us at the top of the hour. his big problem with the supply chain is about 85% of what goes into the toys they make, either you can get right here in the united states, but he is dependent for a chunk of that manufacturing in china. that is his big problem right now. i asked him, why don t you consider moving all of your production to the united states? he said this. we would love to use production to the united states, but the problem is there is not enough labor here. the employment rate is 5%. we need more workers where we need workers to be making pipelines and building, rebuilding ports on the electrical grid, not necessarily teddy bears like the care bear.