julie fisher, thanks very much for being with us. thank you so much. a women across the united states have had a constitutional right to abortions since 973. but a new case before the supreme court could lead to abortions becoming becoming illegal once again in many states. i just zeros heidi show cast reports or nearly 5 decades. women have been able to get abortions in the united states, thanks to a decision made within these marveled halls. now, a new panel, a supreme court justices, is revisiting that decision and could take it all back. it's heartbreaking to think that ro could get overturned and ro has always been the floor and never the feeling that i want to live in a country where every single person can have access to health care. and that would mean saving the life of so many russian and sheltering who are voiceless, are unable to defend themselves, and they're relying on us with the abortion case before the court comes from mississippi, where the conservative state legislature wants to ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, well, before v

afraid it's been good speaking to you. professor johnson berman and transfer arkansas re professor julie fisher in alexandria, virginia. thank you very much for your time and a happy new year to both of you. happy new year and thank you so much. miss hopkins are ending 2021 in a far worse position than when they get began. normal families are so desperate for money that they're forced to sell of children as young a 6 into marriage. agency say the taliban on false marriages has failed to stop the practice. lot of fact there has more in this sprawling settlement camp in western afghanistan. live people displaced by drought and war. but as these go, suffering doesn't, and there she's now trying to save her 10 year old daughter after her husband sold her into marriage without telling her. though she though i started fighting with him and my heart stops beating, i wish i could have died. i told my husband, i'm not going to give away my daughter. such a young age. aziz's husband told her he did it for money to feed his 5 children and that without it, they would starve. he was in his word sacrificing

julie fisher about this and associate professor of micro biology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center. she says 5 pill production may face and challenges in the short term. it's going to take a while for pfizer to wrap up the production of this therapy. it's not easy to scale up quickly. it's a complex drug manufacturer. it's actually 2 different treatments combined. and while it 2022 pfizer risk is committing to providing about a 120000000 courses of, of this treatment in the short term. what comments in the next few weeks is about 65000 doses and put that into perspective crit cobra 19 infection rates in the us with a number of new infections the day. if half the patients who were eligible because they are at risk of progressing to severe disease and being hospitalized would cover 19 disease. we would burn through that entire stock in one day if even half the people were treated. so it's, it's not a lot and the 2nd thing is it's not a cheap treatment. so we're still looking to the vaccines to prevent severe disease as the most effective way to keep people out of hospi

fisher in washington, d. c for is. alan talked to us about this increase in cases where they concentrated wallace go back to july, and joe biden said then that the u. s. was kicking the but of the covert virus. now, the white house is seeing that is facing a viral blizzard over the next few weeks. 18 states in washington, d. c. have seen significant increases in the number of hospitalizations over the last few days. concentrated mainly in the mid west and the northeast. take connecticut, for example. 24 per cent increase in the number of people admitted to hospital in that small state, just north of new york, michigan also facing problems in double digits as well. there is a concern in the white house and among health professionals that the fact is that people have not gone and gotten the booster or some people haven't even been double jobs yet. almost 40 percent of americans still haven't got the vaccination and that is where they see the big problem lies. there's another problem to remember about a month ago, we were talking about the big thanksgiving holiday here in the united states and how millions of peopl

and judy fisher and associate professor of micro biology and immunology from georgetown university medical center is with us to talk about it from alexandria virginia. just to make sure julie that i'm getting this right, a vaccine is precautionary. this pill would be i treatment. if i got coven, i would take the pill immediately. in theory. that's exactly right. the vaccine prevents infection. the, the, the treatment that was just approved by the u. s. f. d, a under what's called an emergency. this authorization is intended to be a therapy for the people who are at highest risk progressing to severe disease or even to death if they are infected with covered $900.00. and so what do you make of it? i mean, the, the fact that we are even talking about these things. we talked about vaccines, you know, less than a year after cove. it came out and now a pill, 2 years later, what's your take on it all? on one hand, we are making amazing progress at a speed that is completely unprecedented. the speed of developing these novel therapies, when you compare it to other viruses, for which we have really a very limited tool kit is just stunning. so it's great news in the sense that we h

fisher in washington, d.c. for us. talk to us about this increase in cases. where are they concentrated? alan: let's go back to julyd joe biden said then the u.s. was kicking the butt of the covid virus. now the way has is saying it is facing a viral blizzard over the next few weeks. 18 states and washington, d.c. have seen a significant increase in the number of hospitalizations over the last few days, concentrated mainly in the midwest and the northeast. take connecticut, for example, 24 percent increase in the number of people admitted to hospital, and that's just north of new york. also problems in double digits, as well. there's a concern in the white house that the fact is that people have not gone and gotten the booster. for some people haven't even been double jabbed yet. almost 40% haven't gotten the vaccination, and that is where they say the problem lies. a month ago, we were talking about the thanksgiving holiday here in the united states and how billions of people were on the move. it really pales in significance to the number of people that start their travel this weekend for the christmas holidays an