the right to obtain an abortion for this constitution. their pitches to make it a valid indication. so michigan authorities can decide if they want to protect abortion rights in their state. now they would need about 425,000 signatures to get it on the ballot. the group gathering signatures said, in just 24 hours, after the draft opinion leaked, the number of volunteers signed up to help gather those farmed in 24 signatures increased by more than hundred people. like i, said creative thinking. but could any of this actually work. joining us now is nikole wells stallworth. she s the executive director of planned parenthood advocates of michigan. one of the groups collecting signatures for the bug initiative that would amend michigan s constitution to guarantee abortion rights. miss wells stalworth, thanks for being here. thank you for having, me ali. let s talk about this, you have until mid july to collect
the vaccines we need when they re triple digits of countries that have no vaccines. i have a wonderful medical assistant are her families in el salvador we are throwing doses because they ve expired, and she begged me, she begged me could i give them to her. ali, honestly i thought about it, and that is the state we are in. we are living the five richest countries have taken almost half the vaccines, and the world is burning around us, and why should we care, the only reason we are talking about the continued threat of variants are not just for the unvaccinated population, but the world unvaccinated population. it s estimated that 50 billion dollars of local investments could help released scaled the manufacturing force needed to give everybody one shot in the country. i hope that is a conversation that we take more seriously. i hope so too, kavita, thank you. kavita patel is a physician she s a fellow at the brookings institute. coming up, to hear kevin mccarthy tell that what w
unvaccinated populations. it s frightening and doing damage within vaccinated populations. yeah, ali, good to be with you. i wish you were on a better topic, at least a topic of improvements, our cases are going up. obviously, with the hospitalizations the deaths are going of. there is a spillover effect, it s not only the breakthrough infections that we re talking about, we re now seeing especially in frail elderly, we re seeing the second breakthrough infections. that is not common. but we certainly have a majority of population still vaccinated, they are susceptible, and as long as we don t have that wall of immunity, ali, we re all eventually susceptible. i think we have to start understanding that has a population. what is the correlation, scientific or otherwise between a large unvaccinated population and those of us who are
democracy. we need to get rid of the filibuster to preserve our union. that has just been suggested. they said that we can hold on to the filibuster for other things but not voting rights. you need to know who you are. i have to say, for the average person, watching the show tonight, they think they re an american citizen. they may think they voted democrat. what do they do, what does success look like for the average person who should be outraged that one of their fellow citizens vote is being subjugated right now? what do they actually do? thanks for having me ali, i think folks have got to cut the cost. they have to think of what the cost of this democracy is and what s the risk. people have to get involved in all sorts of ways, there have been a lot of people doing phone calls and text messages and doing social media outreach and all of that. but we are at a point now where
vaccinated getting infected? yes, so in terms of the correlation, essentially, it s doesn t nullify your immunization, but it creates such a ripe environment for the virus to literally do it it is supposed to do replicate, proliferate, mutate. with that is a series of mutations like we re seeing in the delta variant that can pose a threat to you, the individual who is vaccinated, and even more kind of important i think, you are just talking with the secretary, many of us are in these households, if i m immunized but several of my children are not, then there is a serious high concentration of potential viral activity and potential threat to you the parent who is immunized. we re seeing children spreading this much more efficiently, they don t get as sick, they don t go to the hospital as often, and i m just gonna offer to you, ali, sending your children to the hospital is a pretty low bar. we should set a higher bar in