of the country. now the white house s 20 million doses of paxlovid on order for september. public health officials are worried the need in this country is quickly going to surpass that supply. so at stake is which states american willing get access to this limited supply of covid therapeutics. just like the shortages that we experienced with ventilators and masks and now tests, it looks likely that some americans will come up short again. martha: did you say the additional order would be available in september? late september. martha: late september. okay. just want to make sure i was right on that. gillian, thank you. you bet. martha: so the biden administration now admitting that we ve been talking about this most people will get covid even if they re vaccinated and a mild version hopefully. so how does that hold up in court as the supreme court rules whether your employer can make
say week. the cdc admits that hospitalization numbers are inflated. the cdc now admits the vaccine doesn t stop transmission. that truth is the only cure to the fear that s been driving our policy. so here s more. omicron is mild. everybody knows this. everybody, by the way, is going to get omicron. it s going to spread through our population and spread as well to our children. the choice that we have is whether or not to shut down or to live. live freely. we don t need more tests. i don t think we need more ventilations and more billions. our kids need to get in school and we need to live. martha: there s a division from doctors on that. dr. redfield says yes, we need lots of testing to isolate people that get it. other doctors say what we need is to allow this to go through. it s a milder version. it will impart natural immunity in the people that get it.
not by the feds. the government could clear up confusion. they re sending a letter to miguel cardona. saying it s important for congress and the american people to have a clear understanding of the administration s strategy and a full accounting of how the department of education is using taxpayer funding. we re hearing from a number of parents that tell fox and our affiliates the rules on when to open and when to pivot to remote learning a peer to be changing daily. that has them frustrated and their kids on edge. you can see the cdc implement something and you don t see your own school district implement it. it causes great confusion and ultimately it s the kids paying the price for that. today the white house announcing they re launching a new effort to help to keep school open by distributing tests. we expect more information from the cdc this week on how students can stay in school even if they have been exposed. that program called test to
it s expansion of federal power outweighs the public health been if it. joining me now, jonathan turley. fox news contributor. thanks for being here today. first off, just your reaction to this much more common parlance that everybody is likely to get this. it s all across the country. well, that adds to the concern that we have a changing profile in terms of this pandemic. and whether the cdc is like the old expression that generals prepare to fight the last war, whether we re being nimble enough. the administration knew for some time that they were facing a variant that was likely less deadly but far, far more contagious. it appears that they dropped the ball on a therapeutics, tests. you had interviews saying that they would be ready in september when many people think the variant could well peak and burn
anti-virals. not just two anti-virals from pfizer and merck, but we need a whole portfolio that can begin to put this pandemic back in its place. martha: the white house is ramping up orders for them now. what do you think? it s late in the game. we had an opportunity to handle this crisis at the beginning. remember, president biden promised us a unified country but look what he s doing with it volunteering. he s dividing it more. more deaths in 2021 than 2020 for covid. we re losing confidence in what he says because what he wants us to do is deny what we see and believe what he says. when you spend trillions of dollars fighting and combatting covid and you can t find tests,