a second booster dose. health workers at an israeli hospital are getting the fourth shot to see if it will help con contain the spread of the omicron variant. elliott, we have been so used to this, especially in the last year. israel leading the way. so how are they rolling this out, and how quickly can we expect the data from it? reporter: paula, so, look, the backdrop to this is the covid caseload is rising in israel. prime minister naftali bennett just went on air this morning in a long interview with public radio talking about a storm of contagion being on the way to israel, the likes of which the country has never seen, which makes this trial taking place at a hospital just outside of tel aviv even more timely. let s do it. reporter: yet another shot in the arm. this, says the shiva medical center, is the first time in the world healthy subjects are receiving a fourth shot of covid
into israel for urgent medical treatment. two weeks ago, this 10-year-old girl, whom we can t identify for her own safety, was playing at home when syrian government forces attacked. a bomb hit a warehouse, the roof collapsed. she has a very complex blast injury, head injury, lung injury, but she is making progress and hopefully she will recover. the girl s mother, who also asked not to be identified, is with her in tel aviv s shiva medical center. her 12-year-old son was injured in the same bombing. her other daughter, just 18 months old, was killed. we are living in fear. we are terrorized. there is no stability. we are frightened. and in a sign of the tensions at the israeli-syrian border, israel fired a patriot missile, successfully bringing down an unmanned aircraft that was launched from syria and crossed
around the nation with dravet, all of them have had some improvement with medicinal marijuana. a majority of them, i would say, have been able to get off of all their other medications. so, friom that standpoint, the odds are on vivian s side. keep in mind, for years, even 100 years ago, we knew that medicinal marijuana could have an impact on convulsive disorders, the very thing that vivian and charlotte have. sanjay, in your new documentary, weed, you went to israel, you got a firsthand look at how israeli medical experts were dealing with medical marijuana. they re on the front lines of this issue. let me play a little clip from your documentary. this is israel s largest hospital, shiva medical center. a little medical cannabis. he is using marijuana to help him with the pain and nausea from chemotherapy. filling up this balloon. so, that s your medicine inside
survivor. when his wife died a couple of years ago, he was haunted by nightmares of his childhood hiding from the nazis. the marijuana, he says, took him out of the darkness. you re free. you fly. when you smoke? yeah. there are 19 other patients here. scientists at tel aviv university are now studying their progress. they call the results outstanding. including weight gain, improved mood, pain and tremor reduction. but i can tell you as a doctor it was my next stop that proved the most surprising. this is israeli s largest hospital, shiva medical center. . he is using marijuana to help him with the pain and nausea from chemotherapy. filling up the spoon. so that s your medicine inside there. you want to take it out? and he s doing it inside the hospital.
it also helps ease a deeper pain. he is a holocaust survivor. when his wife died a couple of years ago, he was haunted by nightmares of his childhood hiding from the nazis. the marijuana, he says, took him out of the darkness. when you smoke? there are 19 other patients here. scientists at tel aviv university are now studying their progress. they call the results outstanding. including weight gain, improved mood, pain and tremor reduction. but i can tell you as a doctor it was my next stop that proved the most surprising. this is israeli s largest hospital, shiva medical center. he is using marijuana to help him with the pain and nausea from chemotherapy. that s your medicine inside