anti-biotics. anti-virals limit replication, and so it s not surprising that after five days of treatment, for example, there would be viral particles that are viable that could reproduce themselves, but again it s important if you re in a high risk group. certainly if you re not vaccinated to take the anti-viral to decrease your chance of going onto develop severe covid. do you recommend people still take the anti-viral if they can get it? yes. i mean, if they have are at increased risk because of age, a young healthy person doesn t, but those at high risk do. good to see you, doctor. thank you so much. thank you. thank you all so much for being here at this hour. i m kate bolduan. inside politics with john king starts after this break.
two years before the pandemic hit the country, influenza caused 8 00,000 hospitalizations and 60,000 deaths. we lived with those numbers. we could have masked, social distanced, tested people, vaccinated twice during the season, that would have dramatically lowered the numbers, but beaccept that. at some level we re going to accept this with this virus, i don t know what the numbers are. i m curious of your take. on kind of a new thing we re seeing with the airport virals. cnn is reporting the president is tracking symptoms rebounding after taking the anti-viral. the white house is looking into whether it should be providing guidance on this. are you seeing this? i mean, what do you think of are you surprised by this? well, it s in the package insert when the product was a licensed for use. with about 2 % rebound. it s not surprising in the sense that anti-virals aren t