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the administration is doing a lot with regard to testing. and we recognize we have more work to do. there s promising data from the uk adding to information from south africa showing omicron may be less severe an delta, and the fda could have two pills to treat. that could be a milestone in treating the sickest patients. president biden speaking with private sector ceos as inflation continues to soar without signs of easing. and a potential sign of progress on the build back better bill. joe manchin joining a tuesday night call with fellow democrats after coming out against the nearly $2 trillion package. let s begin with the latest on covid. joining us now, white house correspondent jeff mason, pentagon correspondent, kourtney
tests that should be available in the coming month. and kourtney, what about the military s role? the president announced yesterday that these the medical doctors are going to go to hospitals helping out with personnel. how is that going to work? reporter: that s right. the white house announced they directed the pentagon to prepare up to 1,000 men and women to deploy around the country to support covid response. we ve seen that happening. there s a mission that s been underway since august. there are about 250 members of the u.s. military that are deployed in seven states at about a dozen hospitals right now. and what they have learned over the last almost two years of this pandemic is that rather than surging in hundreds of potential doctors, nurses and paramedics, what s more effective is to send the small teams, usually about 20 men and women, paramedics, doctors, in to support local hospitals that just get overwhelmed by covid. so what happens next is now the pentagon has sa
all right. pete, kourtney, andy, and andrea, thank you all. as we said, powell died from complications of covid, but it s really not just that simple. let s bring in our medical contributor. doctor, powell was obviously fully vaccinated against covid but had underlying conditions that left him vulnerable. as a doctor, what do you want people to know and to understand about the risk factors that were in play here and what general powell actually died of? right. thank you so much for having me on, garrett. i think it s important for people to understand that his situation was unique. he was immunocompromised, meaning he had a weakened immune system. he had a blood cancer that actually affects the blood cells that are responsible for making antibodies. so these patients are at a baseline at risk for infections. they usually actually die from infections. and so he was especially vulnerable because of this
destruction when he didn t. the fallout we re still struggling to wrap our arms around to this day. with me to talk about it all is andrea mitchell, kourtney kubi, and pete williams. and in a moment, we ll speak with andy card who was white house chief of staff during the george w. bush administration. andrea, i think people have different knowledge of colin powell based on when they first became aware of him in the various roles he played throughout our government and throughout modern american history. as a diplomat, how do you think he ll be remembered and what will his legacy be in how the state department conducts its business? well, i think it goes well beyond that, frankly. when i got to first know him, it was in reshaping the reagan administration after the iran scandal at the national security