Medical workers are getting this first dose of the vaccine as we speak protecting themselves against what will still be a long, deadly, and for them exhausting winter. Theyre sending a message to the rest of us that this vaccine is safe and it will save lives. A new online poll from abc news shows that more than 80 of americans are willing to take the vaccine. Although a large percentage say they dont want to be among the first to do so. Frankly most of them will not have to worry about that. Right now there is only enough doses to inoculate a something number of the most vulnerable americans. But the time line is getting more optimistic. Dr. Anthony fauci said the General Public could start getting shots in just three months. I have been saying my my calculation that by the end of mark, the beginning of april, that a normal healthy man and woman in the street with no under lying conditions would likely get it. There is still so much work to be done until that happens. The task of producing and distributing this vaccine will be the largest nationwide mobilization since world war ii. It will be hard, there will be set backs, and more people will still get sick and die as the virus keeps on spreading. In fact just moments ago the death hol here in the United States surpassed 300,000. Lets set all of that aside for one moment. The most difficult of most of our lives, Public Health experts say this pandemic will end. Genuine optimism can be felt in little moments across the country in the first initial vaccinations or pfizer employees cheering the first doses as they went out the door. [ applause ] after everything that we have been through as a nation, we should all Take A Second to celebrate and let this moment sink in. Victory is in sight. Joining me now, sam brock. From michigan alison barber. Not to diminish the hill that were climbing, but it is a real moment, what are you seeing down there . I dont think it is too cliched or simplistic to say that this is truly a ray of hope to all of the people here carrying the emotional burden of seeing people suffer, losing loved ones for nine months now. That is exactly what we are experiencing on the front level. This is the Largest Private Health Care Provider in the state of what we heard from people today, the word they heard most frequently was relief. We started this process. We saw people trickle it, and you mentioned late march and early spril. It is excruciating here. They wore their pain over their heart and their chest. This is not the first time were talking at mitigation, but solution. This is a very specific location that im at right now it was helping pfizer with their trial runs but the cold freezing temperatures minus 70 and minus 80 degrees. How to move the dry ice and boxes around. Nehr a great position to be about to leverage that. Everything else, this is the true wigs of the long sought after vaccine becoming real. She has been Rapid Response for six years. She talked about what today was like and what she experienced in the last several months. Here is what she said. It is just really overwhelming in a good way. I feel like we have been through a lot in the last nine or ten months so to see this finally happening was just amazing. In the last nine months how many times have you cried tears of pain . A lot. Hundreds . Yeah, i can right now. It has been tough. But that is a microcausium. It has been hard for all of us, but those dealing with it day in and day out experiencing the surging with the families and the victims, you really feel for them and the woman you were just talking to. You were at a hospital in michigan, i know they were trying to figure out when they would get their shipment of vaccine, what are you hearing . Yeah, it is not hear, but theyre waiting and ready when it arrives here. When it does make it here it will come into this room where you will have farm sises here where she shows us where she will store it. Say will store it and make sure that it is ready to be a Administers Pred properly. Once you have this vaccine, one, how quickly can you get it ready to be injected. Were expected any time to receive vaccine. Were going to be ready to inject within hours. So here they are going to be the place where Health Care Workers identified their vaccine. But they are only expecting to get about 975 doses, so within that group, they did a lottery to identify about 1,000 people who will get these first vaccines. The first person that is going to be vaccinated here is an Infectious Disease doctor, listen here. This vaccine is exciting. I have been looking forward to this for a long time, but i dont expect this to change a lot. I think were expected to do the masks and watch the hands, at least for the future when we get an idea of how this vaccine and this disease works. Across michigan flags are flying at half after it to honor, grieve for, and remember the 10,000 Plus Michiganers that lost their lives because of the virus. This vaccine cannot come soon enough. What youre seeing right now is frontline Health Care Workers getting vaccinated. At nyu, this process is ongoing, it is a logistic kal mountain t climb. Who gets it when. They have to defrost it and it only lasts for so many hours and so many days and they dont want any of tf to go to waste if is difficult. Part of the challenge is shipping it out to everyone. Youre a Postal Service facility, correct . Tell me about the process of getting it out. What are you seeing . Were at the world port here. They have a massive fleet of cargo planes. This is one of the tools they use toship those shipments out in the coming days and weeks. You can see the massive containers that theyre loaded in, thats what they arrive in and theyre off loaded here, and then their loaded on to other planes bound for hospitals and communities in need of that vaccine. When it comes to, as you mentioned, trying to make sure the vaccine stays viable a big tool in that is in my hand. This is a Blue Tooth Division that will track the location and it will monitor the temperature. It needs to be kept at negative 94 degrees fahrenheit. What theyre able to do with this sensor is should it start to rise even a little bit they will isolate that box, send a crew member to it and put more dry ice in there to make sure it maintains that super cold temperature so that when it arrives at a hospital it did k be safely onloaded, taken inside to a lab, and then the vaccine is thawed before it is injected into the arms of the Frontline Workers working so tirelessly over the last nine months doing everything they could to bring the pandemic to a close. We saw some of them get their shots today in louisville, it came with roundes of applause. They went up there, smiles on their faces, recognizing that it could be the beginning of the end for this pandemic. It is emotional, thank you all. With me now is dr. Tom freeden, tom, good to see you, how are we doing so far . It is really encouraging. The vaccine has proven to be much more effective and faster than most of us expected. It is just the first step on a long road of vaccination to create immunities so we can get back to normal. It will be a number of months before there is enough given so that we can let down our guard. Right now were seeing the highest Hospital Rate ever. Were seeing increating death rates and that is tragedy likely to continue for months. So we have to doupt down to save lives now. We are at the very beginning of the end, the very, very, very beginning of the end. I was listen to dr. Monsef this morning, but he says he was very worried about the sensors in the giant boxes saying the temperature is changing, flux chew rating, and they need a repairman out there what should we be on most high alert for . We dont know if the production will continue. There could be supply and trust problems. It is a question not just of is the vaccine available, but will people take it . Change happens at the speed of trust. In terms of distribution the vaccine will come before the committee this week and this is not quite as difficult. They are likely to be approved in the new year. As you said it is just the first step on a very long and probably bumpy road. Youre talking about trust, trust is going to be an issue along communities of color that historically do not trust the medical system because of their terrible experiences with it. What else should we be doing on the national and federal level to make sure they take this shot. First and foremost congress has to act. That is a he looks like dollar effort. Insurance will pay some of it, but i know this wont be done with a Advertising Campaign if will require community engagement. Find out who they are listening to were sharing nsk, and providing the kind of practical messages and messengers that will be heard in different communities. That is how you succeed. Does it help to have National Figures get public forgets. The president said he will get it at some point, but he made no mention of when that might be. How much does that matter . They are getting the message that this is an effective vaccine. And with Tens Of Thousands of people that got it we dont see any serious side effects. It makes your arm sore and half of people feel bad for a day or so afterwards with a headache or fatigue, and about 10 or 15 can feel feverish and chills. Maybe a little like a flu, but one thing to make clear is that is an indication that the vaccine is working. The Immune System is saying next time i see this, im going to keep someone from getting sick. Just to be clear youre not getting covid, youre getting a synthetic form of the virus that is not covid. Think of it like an email sent to your Immune System that shows it a picture of what the virus looks like and gives It Instructions on how to kill the virus and then like a snapchat it disappears. It is amazing technology. The fact that in less that a year it is ending up in peoples arms after proving to be effective, that is really encouraging. But again we have a kind of double message. On one hand great news, only the other hand we have even more reason to play it safe so we can all be around for when the vaccine becomes available to us. I think of it like tricking your system, like how someone saying hello on their Answering Machine thank you for joining us. It is a truly remarkable day, a real day for hope. We appreciate it, sir. 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The doors are locked, the public is not allowed in, what is it like outside. They are speaking right now here. The 16 electors will coast their voted for joe biden. It is important to note that the republican Led Legislature closed down the house and the senate last night after they said what were Credible Threats of violence. One legislature appeared on a Radio Program suggests there would be a Hail Mary Type action in order to essentially stop this Electoral College meeting from taking place. I think it is important to note that these are not normal times. From your time on the road, katy, it is clear that this is normal. You have State Legislatures talking openly about potential violence here. You have 120 u. S. House members that signed on to a lawsuit to overturn election results. You have the one time americans mayor urging State Legislatures, including here in michigan, to set different electors for trump despite joe biden winning. Governor whitner who was a target in a kidnapping plot. Just last weekend the michigan Secretary Of State had dozens of armed individuals outside of her house harassing her. So while michigan will cast their 16 elector votes for joe biden and kamala harris, i think it is important to note and remember what this democracy, what this electoral process has endured to get to this Point Today In Which Joe Bide listen officially declare himself the winner of this election. It is the new normal for people to get death threats. It is an ep softbaacceptable no. This sort of thing started happening on a regular basis. Tim what is driving this anger, this distrust, this refusal to accept facts and result . Michigan . How much time do you have, katie . This became circular in a lot of ways, right . The tail wagging the dog and the dog wagging the tail. John james lost a pretty narrow, very hard fought race against the incumbent direct. Right when he was about to overtake john james in the vote counting process, John James Campaign competweeted out a stat that accused him of tweeting and john james retweeted it. They announced they were trying to steal the election and they were tweeting. A few weeks later, john james puts out a facebook video addressing all of his concerns with the electoral process in michigan and really lifting up he says listen, when onehalf of the voters in this state think they were cheated, we have a real problem here. You listen to him say that and you think wait, you were the one telling them they were cheated within righ, right . This is very circular. You have elected officials and Prominent Party leaders that were fanning the flames and they were justifying or per pitpetua those at the ground day. Those people are getting so angry and agitate, right . People said the vote was stolen from you. These are people in positions of power and influence. Youre going to believe them. They take to the power, they flood their representatives online and in their inboxes, and those elected officials and Party Leaders in turn will site that outrage. It is just self perpetuating. It is really, really disappointing. It would be easily avoided if officials in the upper most echelons were willing to tell their voters the truth, for most folks that is toosh to ask. Its antidemocratic and i think that is the worst thing you can say about something in this country. When youre antidemocratic, a lawmaker, a leader, and you have the influence that tim just laid out. This is joe bidens he will be president on january 20th, it is going forward. There is a real problem trying to stitch the country back together. Do you see a first step in trying to fix this . Is this a way forward . Gosh, katy. I should probably say yes, there is a path forward because were americans. We solve problems, we come together. We have ultimately a challenge that we have not seen before, but were going to surmount it. I dont know if i can tell you that. If one thing ticks with me, talking with voters across the country, it is that we are in a really bad place in the country not because we disagree, but because of our information. At the center of our disagreements. Its not because of a common baseline or information, but were often at beach others votes, it is offer contradictory pieces and that is at the heart of this and i dont see how that changes, i dont see how we judge one another so ruthlessly. The political dynamics in this country right now are so far out of whack. If you spend any amount of time with voters on the ground and you dont walk away hospital mystic. Well said, i think youre totally right about that having done the same traveling myself. I used to sign facts matter in my book when i was asked to sign them and i believed that, no matter what spakts will win out, but it seems now that facts dont matter. Tim, thank you for being honest and clear eyed for us. Thank you, gentlemen, i appreciate it. Coming up, more and more kids are being admitted into a hospital with covid. Black americans are among the hardest pit, but theyre also the most skeptical of a vaccine. What does that mean for those that need it worse . Show of hands if youre 100 sure you will take this vaccine. Eventually. Moisture barrier. Uh i love it aveeno® healthy. Its our nature. ™ and now with q4 wrapping up, the north pole ha