Bakkiam Subbiah

I like the Closing Bell show most of the time. Today Ms. Sara Eisen went overboard in her interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Her strident tone was unwarranted with a man who is trying his best to educate an audience that appears totally clueless, especially the unvaccinated. They should have let the incomparable Meg Tirrell handle the interview. The Merck drug "molnupiravir", reduces the risk of hospitalization, a proxy for serious illness, by 50%? This is great? And the CNBC hosts and contributors are running around extolling the virtues of this "wonder" drug. What about the other 50% who face death and severe disability? There is no guarantee that if one gets vaccinated, one will not get Covid-19, especially with half the population running around refusing to get vaccinated. They are the ones infecting and re-infecting others over and over. The only thing that is "implied" is that if a fully vaccinated person is exposed to and gets infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that person will very likely get a very mild infection that causes no symptoms or mild symptoms. They are vaccines for crying out loud! What they do is to prime the naive immune system to mount a response when it gets infected. Not cold stop the virus dead in its tracks before in infects a person. . THE PERCENTAGE THAT GET IMMUNITY IS AROUND 95%. ONLY 5% ARE AT THE RISK OF GETTING SERIUS INFECTION THAT LIKELY WILL RESULT IN HOSPITALIZATION, DEATH AND DISABILITY. FOR BOTH THE PFIZER AND MODERNA VACCINES. . NOT 50% PROBABILITY THAT YOU MAY DIE OR HAVE SEVERE RESIDUALS LIKE WITH THIS NEW WONDER DRUG! IF YOU START OUT UNVACCINATED THAT IS. CAVEAT EMPTOR.