advisory board is now recommending a fourth covid shot for all adult, citing the effectiveness of boosters, while pfizer announces its omicron-specific vaccine is now in trials. when it comes to treating omicron, regulators announced they ll limit the use of money know clonal antibody treatments, that means sparking a feud between florida s governor and the white house who says they re using a lot of tools to fight covid. people have a right to access these treatments. and to revoke it on this basis is fundamentally wrong. let s just take a step back here just to realize how crazy this is. we re not relying on one type, one brand or treatment. reporter: in new york city, sarah palin allegedly flouting covid-19 restrictions by dining inside a restaurant while unvaccinated on saturday, and then testing positive on monday, delaying her defamation trial against the new york times. an attorney for palin declined to comment. and another stage goes dark.
hope that you have for moan owe clonal antibody treatments. i saw you were quoted in an alabama paper calling them the golden goose for treating covid. you said, everybody understands this is the answer. we ve been talking about these treatments for a long time on the show and the nih now says that it is very easy to qualify for these treatments, and they, of course, are free to the patient. the federal government will cover the cost of them. can you explain why you are hopeful about them and whether it might offer a sort of way out or at least a relief valve in your state? sure. i was contacted last november about five days after lilly got approval for emergency use authorization for their product. i got educated on it, starred using those and alabama at that time had more moan more monoclo antibodies than any state. we developed this, myself and another doctor, helped us get
alabama, which is the city where president trump plans to hold what he is calling his epic political rally tomorrow, in advance of that rally coleman today declared a covid state of emergency. today a hospital down in southern alabama on the gulf coast, a town called foley, announced they re getting a deployment of federal medical staff, federal medical staff from the federal department of health and human services to come and reinforce their staffing because they re stretched beyond breaking. as alabama struggles, one of the things the state is relying on heavily, really trying hard to pivot hard to, is getting antibody treatments for people who have tested positive in order to try to keep them out of the hospital, mon owe clonal antibody treatments. one doctor with a lot of experience with that is our next guest. dr. david thrasher is respiratory director at jock son hospital, an educator on monoclonal antibody treatments. it is a pleasure to have you with us tonight. thank you for b