When and How to Get the New COVID Antivirals (with America’s Chief Scientific Officer David Kessler)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Andy brings you information directly from the source to let you know what to expect when the antivirals arrive: who will get them, how to get them, when to get yours, and the biggest question — will they change everything? In an exclusive interview with In the Bubble, Dr. David Kessler, Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team, tells Andy how he is personally navigating Omicron and what the Biden Administration is doing to ensure that we have the capacity to respond quickly to the next pandemic.

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Learn more about the NIH’s COVID-19 treatment guidelines: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/
Check out the New England Journal of Medicine article on Remdesivir that David mentions in today’s episode: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116846
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0:58.3	Blackstone Smith Klein monoclonal for treatment. There's the AZ monoclonal for
1:02.5	immunocompromised. There's two antivirals and there's an intravenous antiviral
1:06.6	Rhemedesavia, the paper in the New England Journal, you know, two weeks ago.
1:12.0	The showed as good results as any monoclonal, I mean, and the Pfizer drug. So, I
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1:28.0	range of therapies, but I got to change medical practice. Everyone goes, where's
1:31.5	the Pfizer drug? Well, I can't find the Pfizer drug. I have nothing. But there's a
1:34.8	range of therapies.
1:53.4	Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. If you are new to in the
1:58.5	bubble, this is a great podcast for you because it's all the things that we
2:02.8	try to do in the bubble, which is namely bring you an insider conversation on
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