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The Atlantic The more the state collaborates with those at the local, community level, the greater the vaccine uptake. February 8, 2021 Professor at the West Virginia University School of Public Health Members of a coronavirus vaccine task force met in a command center in Charleston, West Virginia.Kristian Thacker / The New York Times / Redux As a physician focused on public health in West Virginia, I am accustomed to our state scoring low in all national measures of health. We have high rates ...

From the start of the nevada caucuses. certainly a lot at stake for these democratic presidential candidates. lets go over to john king at the magic wall. john, set the scene for us, tell us what youre looking for, as the early numbers eventually start coming in. >> hopefully. hopefully they close and they check the numbers and do the count, and hopefully caucus night number two goes better than number one. >> and most of the vote is in clark county. 73% essentially the state population, where y...

Voter, more precincts, more candidates, the democrats often fly between las vegas and reno when campaigning in nevda. and the watchdog, back to 2008 and show you this, in the obama/clinton race. hillary clinton has a higher percentage. more people show up for hillary clinton on caucus day in 2008. barack obama walked away with many extra delegates than hillary clinton? and why? because he competed in less than 1% of the state population, in white pine county, but more precincts, more delegates a...

Clinton gets nearly 53%, bernie sanders 47% and clark county, winning by 10% and the more rural area, come here to elko county, bernie sanders is winning. and 22% of the state population. but there are precincts here. delegates to be had here. so the main competition is to go where the people are, which is here and here, and you see the competition in the rural areas, to see if candidates can pick up a precinct here, pick up a precinct there, and add to their delegate count. an example is if you...

Tried to put impeachment on the ballot in kentucky. and for the democrat to even make the race this close, we would be talking about it even if the democrat was coming in second. >> i think there are a couples things that happen. i think when youre a democrat and win a governors race in kentucky a lot of things have to go right for you. there are two thing tuesday draw your attention to. one ive been talking about tonight is in the suburbs, on the other side of the ohio river there is cincinnati...

Don, in a state president trump carried by 18 points two years ago. cindy hyde-smith at the moment a little over ten-point margin there. so republicans will say a win is a win. democrats will say they made a pretty good run here. now, were calling this race because weve gone through this, and there is no way. cindy hyde-smith will win this race. i will say its possible the margin will get a little bit closer as the final votes come in. why do i say that? you see a lot of gray here in the western...

The western part of the state. theres blue all around it. this is where mike espys old congressional district was out here. democratic areas that have yet to report. but theyre pretty small. you look down here, jefferson county, less than 1% of the state population. adams county, just over 1% of the state population, and so on as you look out here at these democratic counties. cindy hyde-smith by running it up in these red areas here. this is biloxi where president trump was on the eve of the ru...

Off a miraculous victory here? >> everyone should go into the night -- cindy hyde smith, she should win this race. this is the map tonight. these are the candidates. lets go back three weeks. this is where we were on election night. the reason we have the runoff is because neither candidate in the race tonight cracked 50%. these were the top two candidates. the third place candidate, another republican, 41-16. you do the math. that is the state of mississippi. look at this blue. this is pretty i...

Cindy hyde smith. if those republican votes go to the republican incumbent it is game over. mike espy has to somehow find a way. lets go back to tonights map and find a way to cut into the white vote. thats a complicated challenge. we look at the map now. it tells us just about nothing. one of the things we are going to look at. you have to go back to way before this technology existed to find a competitive democrat in mississippi in a senate race. lets just look up here. de soto county a little...

Mike elsepy, the democratic challenger, got just below that, 41%. the other candidates finishing below that. mike espy did run it up in this part of the state three weeks. go. this is what he has to do again tonight and i would argue by bigger numbers. if you look at the republican vote, 41% for the incumbent, cindy hyde-smith. 16% for chris mcdaniel. if those republican votes go to the incumbent, its game over. espy has no run up the african-american vote, find a way -- come back to tonights ma...