ranney, you are now fully vaccinated yourself.to a crowded restaurant, for example, but when you are vaccinated and let's say a friend or relative is vaccinated but at least finally share a meal indoors together? what can people look forward to? >> so personally now that i'm fully vaccinated i of course take a big sigh of relief when i go to work in the er, i have a much lower chance of getting a severe infection. yes, i have had coffee with friends that i would not have seen three months ago. i actually got on a plane for the first time since march and as more of us get vaccinated, that will become more possible. i'm still careful because i could catch the virus and bring it home to my husband who has not been vaccinated yet, but i'm much -- i take a bigger sigh of relief and i think that we have much more to look forward to about getting together with other friends who fully completed the two shots and then that extra week or two after the second shot. >> and i think the thing for a lot of people to remember is that the vaccines

ranney. dr. ranney, when you look at what the authorities did provide including choosing to share that they didn't see any evidence of medical impairment, while that's a question that comes up in the past, tiger woods has had these other issues, what if anything do you glean from that when obviously there is still more investigation of medical information that's not public at this time? >> you know, at this moment of the car crash, our top priority is making sure that we can save the person's life. it's not assessing whether they have been drinking or whether they're high or whether they have been using other substances. it's about making sure that they're able to breathe, that they haven't lost their blood pressure, and that we're going to be able to get them to the trauma center alive. that was really my take away from what they said during the press conference is they focused on making sure he was conscious, that he was protecting his airway, and he was safe and stable for transport to the tra

megan ranney, emergency physician at brown university.miologists are saying these variants could make the fight against covid much harder by causing more severe disease or lessening the effectiveness of the vaccines. what concerns you most? >> so right now, what concerns me most is simply that we already know that they're more tran transmissible, which means it's easier to infect people. we're in a race against time against these varyniants with trying to get people vaccinated before they spread across the country. it means going to the grocery store or school or work could become more dangerous. we have an overtaxed and exhausted health care system. we have a little breathing room right now, but if these new variants become dominant in our country, we're going to be right back where we were in november and december, and perhaps even worse. >> do you see another surge happening? >> you know, i don't know. we're watching the falling numbers across the country with a sense of relief. but we have seen this happen before. and as we see the nu

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as a bloc has condemned what happens to mr ranney and of called on the russian authorities to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happened to him remember he was poisoned with novacek and it was only through the intervention of 1st doctors in russia and then here in berlin that he was able to recover so that's pretty much what they've been discussing what they've been talking about how they intend to proceed these are the the never only case and the russian government now 53 kidnapping victims in nigeria have been released after the group present ducted from a bus last week the people including 20 women and 9 children were taken by an armed group and i just state that's as the government nears a deal for the release of dozens of school children who are also abducted last week in a separate incident that address has more now from the he says this criticism over the way that the government has handling this rise in kidnappings. another concern for many nigerians have been following developments up north while kidnapping is becoming more like big business

ranney, it's coming to dr. fouch cli chi, can we and should we be able to choose what vaccine we get? >> so my takeaye way -- i've been discussing this with other medical and public experts all morning, combing through this new fda release and trying to make sense of it, my takeaway is get the vaccine you're offered. waiting an extra month or two with an extra 10 or 20% efficacy against mild or moderate disease, you have the chance of getting covid in the next month or two. i would say take what you can get that, too. we'll be waiting to see how to prioritize this vaccine. my suspicion is it will start with people lower risk for severe disease. people without comorbidities, if you're offered a vaccine, take it. if my own parents were offered the j&j vaccine, i'd tell them to get it. >> it comes to getting a single dose out to populations that are more rural, a lot of positives that comes with j&j's announcement as well. thank you for coming in. >>> the house of representatives is set to vote friday on president

. - we're joined now by emergency physician dr megan ranney. she's in providence, rhode island. anything like what we have here in england in the us a moment we have people going door—to—door posting testing kits to the letterbox? i posting testing kits to the letterbox?— posting testing kits to the letterbox? , ., , ., letterbox? i wish he has a thing like that in _ letterbox? i wish he has a thing like that in the _ letterbox? i wish he has a thing like that in the us _ letterbox? i wish he has a thing like that in the us right - letterbox? i wish he has a thing like that in the us right now. i like that in the us right now. testing — like that in the us right now. testing has been a god—awful mess here for— testing has been a god—awful mess here for the past ten months. it's starting _ here for the past ten months. it's starting to— here for the past ten months. it's starting to change but we are actually — starting to change but we are actually changing some of our better testing _ actually changing some of our better testing facilities into vaccination facilities — testing