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This is a rush transcript of “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on January 4, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
CHARLES PAYNE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: President Biden meeting with his COVID response team and once again urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted.
The president also announcing that he is doubling an order for Pfizer’s new COVID pill. The first doses should be available by the end of the month.
Welcome, everyone. I’m Charles Payne, in for Neil Cavuto. And this is “Your World.”
To Jacqui Heinrich at the White House with the very latest — Jacqui.
JACQUI HEINRICH, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Hey there, Charles.
Yes, that announcement from the White House that they’re doubling their order of the Pfizer antiviral pill is welcome news to a lot of folks who are criticizing the White House for letting therapeutics fall by the wayside in favor of this near-exclusive focus on vaccinations that we have seen.
They have also accelerated the timeline on when they will be delivered from September to June. We were looking at 10 — an order of 10 million initially, and those were not going to be available until September. But through some finagling, the White House announced they will be able to get the full 10 million by June, and by the end of January, they will have four million COVID treatments on hand.
A lot of the same sort of vibe that we got from the president when he gave his remarks today ahead of that briefing, warning folks who are unvaccinated that they’re at risk with this highly transmissible Omicron variant, telling people who are vaccinated to get boosted, and also speaking about the numbers, as we have seen this really, really record- breaking number today, one million cases in the U.S.
Here’s what the president said earlier.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you are vaccinated and boosted, you may get COVID, but you are highly protected against severe illness. Schools can and should be open this winter. We…
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