amesh adalja, do you have familiarity with what he is speaking about? guest: i am not following the question. host: melissa, iowa. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, -- caller: the doctor mentioned about pregnant women needing to get the vaccine. have they done studies on women that were pregnant getting the vaccine? guest: yes. they have done multiple studies. people got pregnant during the clinical trials. there is a registry of pregnant women who have been vaccinated. we have seen no increased rate of complication, fetal abnormality, miscarriage. this is safe and effective for pregnant women. this is something pregnant women should do today. host: we lost that call. we will go to jenny in north carolina. caller: my question is at what to see a study on how many people have had the vaccine and help many are sick from it or have heart problems? i am wearing a heart monitor, because after my second vaccine, i was tired, blaming it on the summer. my heart was racing. i am 74, but i was fine until i had that vaccine. i want to kno

dr amesh adalja.hejohns hopkins university centre for security. around 62% of voters in switzerland have backed their government's covid strategy, including a covid certificate showing proof of vaccination, recovery, or a negative test. switzerland is currently battling a surge in infections and the certificates are currently needed to access bars, restaurants, and football matches. the war in ethiopia has reached a critical point, with tigrayan rebels from the north claiming they're advancing ever closer to addis ababa, as they prepare to clash with government forces near the capital. the conflict, which began just over a year ago, has pitted combined groups from around the country against the prime minister abiy ahmed, who last week announced he would lead his army in battle. it has created a humanitarian disaster, and torn the country apart, with little sign of any resolution. our africa correspondent andrew harding sent this report. a late night roadblock in ethiopia's capital and a hunt for rebel

dr amesh adalja.or otherwise, indeed, on travel bands. —— on travel bans. around 62% of voters in switzerland have backed their government's covid strategy, including a covid certificate showing proof of vaccination, recovery, or a negative test. switzerland is currently battling a surge in infections and the certificates are currently needed to access bars, restaurants, and football matches. four days after the bodies of people who drowned in the channel while trying to reach the uk were discovered, the identities of all 27 are yet to be confirmed. many are thought to be kurds from northern iraq and as the days go on without news, families there fear the worst. the bbc�*s murad shishani has the story of one man whose wife and three children are believed to have been on the boat. for those waiting for news, the uncertainty is almost as difficult as the grief. rizgal hussein's wife and three children wanted to come to the uk to start a new life away from their village, in iraqi kurdistan. his oldest da

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for more on this, i'm joined by dr amesh adalja, who is a senior scholar at thejohns hopkins university security. thank you very much indeed for joining us. i wonder if i could pick up directly on cyril ramaphosa's point that the prohibition, these restrictions are not informed by science, he says. a lot afield would feel that they are, because we know that ——we know so little about this particular variant. i agree with the _ particular variant. i agree with the south _ particular variant. i agree with the south african - with the south african president that i do not think these bans are justified. president that i do not think these bans arejustified. even if there are important questions to answer about the new variant we know a lot about covid—i9, we know how it transmits, have treatments and tests and vaccines, have a lot of different tools at our disposal now in november 2021 but we did not have early on in the pandemic so i do not think that we should be going back to these blunt tools that penalise countries like south africa, which has been really diligent and transparent in al

amesh adalja of johns hopkins. i wonder what will happen with the u.k.der someone with a third shot to be vaccinated. if you haven't been vaccinated you have to do 1, 2, wait six months, so you have to be -- you have to wait six months to be fully vaccinated? tom: do you partition germany as munich is different than hamburg? jonathan: eastern europe is different. tom: is it all-encompassing germany as a risk or do you see it as regional, discrete? jonathan: in my view, what we are seeing in eastern europe is less take up of the vaccination in eastern germany and therefore more cases. that's what i've been reading. that's not my personal view. tom: compare that to the united kingdom. jonathan: cases are building around the world, that's the bottom line. that's why you've seen the prime minister push forward with the bigger effort to get boosters to people, away from the mall -- most vulnerable. tom: i am sorry, it is the cold. we behave differently when it is cold. lisa: the idea of people going inside i wonder at what point the six will get -- some of th

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