AstraZeneca asks FDA for emergency authorization for new COVID treatment l GMA

latest on a pandemic and another possible weapon in the fight against covet after zenika asking the fda for emergency authorization for a new treatment for covett stevo sansami is tracking the latest good morning steve good morning to you michael if authorization of this new drug is approved public health officials hope that it will help them fight this disease there are of course many steps that lead to this process they're saying that the current numbers are improving but not in a place where anyone should feel comfortable there's some hope this morning in the new forecast from the cdc the scientists in atlanta are sharing that the number of covet cases hospitalizations and fatalities are expected to fall over the next two weeks but the numbers will still be painful with twenty two thousand americans expected to die from covert these next two weeks down from twenty six thousand people over the two weeks prior in order to avoid any subsequent resurgence it would be very important to get a lot more people vaccinated the white house is trying to celebrate the positive announcing on tuesday that 76 percent of americans 12 and older have gotten at least one shot and the department of health and human services is out with a new report saying that coveted vaccines kept more than a quarter million seniors from getting sick also the drug companies are making new tools drug maker astrazeneca is asking for emergency fda authorization of its antibody treatment to help prevent covet 19 antibodies have often been used to treat people who've already gotten sick but this would help prevent disease for high-risk americans with compromised immune systems this is not in place off the vaccines really important this is an additional layer of therapy that we have health officials say they need to remind everyone that thousands of americans are still dying every day with now seven hundred thousand dead since the pandemic began we're seeing more proof every day that more and more companies that are requiring their workers to get vaccinated aren't kidding the latest is health giant kaiser permanente they're reporting this morning that they've put 2200 of their employees many of the medical workers on unpaid leave and saying that those employees have until december 1st to get immunized hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Length: 2min 33sec (153 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 06 2021