That news coming on one of the deadliest days of this pandemic. Get this. More than 3,300 americans, thousand three hundred americans died on this day alone. And set to be sworn in dies of covid leaving behind a wife and two very young children. Our hearts go out to them right now. Good news overnight, believing a gamechanger for developing countries, because the vaccine is cheaper to make and doesnt actually require cold, complicated storage from astrazeneca. Other good news, second stimulus checks on their way to americans and should continue to roll out late other than this week, but the fight to direct those payments up to 2,000 still playing out. Not far from over and were covering it all. But we want to start with this breaking news on the coronavirus and our team are roste erreport covering every angels it. Kerry sanders, good to see you on this. A lot more questions about this new variant than there are answers. Its really worrisome for in americans. Talk us through what we know so far. Reporter yasmin, the real question, of course, how it showed up in a man in this 20s in colorado who right now is in medical isolation but had not traveled and as you know, this variant first really showed up in england, and when it showed up in england, there were all types of decisions made how we would handle people traveling from england to the United States, on airplanes, requiring proof of those pcr tests that show negativity and yet here is somebody who hadnt even traveled and so a big question, of course, is where did he get it . And how is it that he did get it and now it shows up . Were going to hear a little bit more from officials in colorado, including the governor later today. Meantime, im here in Fort Lauderdale at holy cross health, and you can see over my shoulder that line here, yasmin. Those are Health Care Workers who showed up here to get the vaccine. It is first come, first serve. Across the country, theres been a lot of questions about the way the vaccine is being distributed from the federal level all the way down to the local level. Some hospitals only allowing those to work at that hospital to get the vaccine. Here allowing Health Care Work toe workers to come. Were busy. We have Health Care Providers who are coming from all through Broward County as well as we get providers from monroe which is the keys, and as high up at jupiter, tampa area. Were concerned, because weres only one access point, and were curious where the other Access Points going to be. Reporter so much of that question about Access Points, to give you a little geography lesson, coming from tampa, here to Fort Lauderdale, Health Care Workers getting those vaccinations is a tenhour round trip. As you heard them say, Access Points, the real question. Why are there not more locations around the country where people can get this . The promise was, from operation warp speed, that we would have 20 Million People vaccinated by end of the year. You know, thats 40 some hours from now. Thats not going to happen. Were slightly more than 2 Million People who have been vaccinated in this country. A lot of fingerpointing going on all the way up to the white house, and why this is not delivering the way people expected. A lot of folks, those even here in line saying that its been erratic, confusing and way too slow, yasmin. And always trying to get to the bottom of that question and will continue to throughout this hour, because we want to see as many people vaccinated in the country as we can. A good day seeing frontline Health Care Workers getting vaccinated. Seeing them line up overnight to actually get the vaccine and go about their day having gotten the vaccine is also confusing. Bringing ip the variant. A major question of Community Spread and how much we know about the variant. Richard engine, youre in london for us where the uk just approved the astrazeneca vaccine for use in that country. That is huge news. Really good news, obviously. Talk us through how this vaccine is different from the other ones that have been approved so far, like pfizer and moderna . Reporter so its a different type of vaccine, for one. It is a more traditional type of vaccine, which is one of the reasons its able to produce it so inexpensively and in massive quantities. Its what they call a viral vector vaccine. In that it uses a different virus, a deactivated virus, a harmless virus, a virus that used to give colds to chimpanzees. They used that virus to deliver genetic material. Unlike the pfizer moderna vaccines, more feats of bioengineering. Genetic vaccine that directly delivered genetic code to produce an immune response. An antien bobody response. A modernized version of a very traditional style of vaccine and it began its rollout again, began its approval process today and begins rollout on monday according to officials. The big difference is handling. It doesnt require extreme, cold conditions for longterm storage. Because the pfizer and moderna vaccines are so new, such cuttingedge technology, they have to be consent at these very, very cold temperatures in order to keep them stable, because as things heat up, like the air, like all particles of the world, they move faster and become left stable. Imagine water going from a regular state to boiling. Suddenly moving it at a different rate. These can be kept, the astrazeneca vaccine, can be kept more like refrigerator temperatures. That means that its easier to handle. Ive been watching doctors and nurses in this country try to deal with the pfizer vaccine. Frankly, theyre intimidated by it. They cant prove it very often. You cant shake it up. Theyre only allowed, according to local laws to have four logistical moves that includes moving it from the plant to a hospital. So that means once it goes inside a big, deep, cold fridge, they only have one or two more moves to, before they have to throw it away. So this one, theyre confident that they can deal with it. Its like other drugs that need to be kept in a fridge, and they believe they can dramatically speed up the vaccination process now. Richard, quickly here, with this astrazeneca vaccine at this point, giving a half dose first and full dose second . Reporter no. Theyre not. That was there was talk about that, because in the research, they found there was a bit of a happy accident. It was a happy accident that caused some doctors in the United States to be very concerned that they found when they gave volunteers a half dose in the beginning and then followed up by a full dose, it turned out to be very efficient. Like 90 effectiveness rate. Right. Reporter but they didnt approve that. Instead giving two doses, through months apart and according to regulators here, that will give an 80 effective effectiveness, more than enough to tamp down a virus and bring it out of the pandemic state, if enough people get it. Got it. Richard engel, kerry sanders, thank you both. Appreciate it. Want to go now over to capitol hill where the fate of those system les relief payments is up in the air. Yesterday Mitch Mcconnell block wered the bill and proposed a bill with repeal of protection for big tech. The president is determined to ewhippenate. In response Chuck Schumer said senator mcconnell knows how to make 2,000 checks reality and knows how to kill them signaling that this was his effort to kill those payments. Joining me democratic senator from delaware, chris coons. Thanks for joining u. S. On th i. Before we get to the relief bill, talk about kerry sanders, what he said, hitting a 20 million vaccines by end of the year. We are 18 million short of that at this point. About 2 million vaccines dolled out. There is no state funding in any of this relief bill, and yet you have the president tweeting out early this morning essentially, look. We made these vaccines. Weve given it to the states, and now our hands are clean. Whats going on here . Where is the disconnect . Yasmin, this is exactly how President Trump has led or failed to lead our federal response to this pandemic for months and months. He would say, we have a federal stock pipile of ppe, here it is come and get it states and there wouldnt be up in for frontline and essential health workerss say im going to deliver the best tests for this pandemic ever and utterly fail to manufacture and deliver those tests. He has blamed states for their failure to actually deliver care to their citizens, when this is a federal responsibility. We are in the midst of the worst Public Health crisis of our lifetimes, and President Trump instead of being a good role model and saying, dont travel during thanksgiving and christmas, is golfing, tweeting, indulging himself in conspiracy theories ash how he actually won the election that he lost eight weeks ago, and failing to deliver real results to this pandemic. Three weeks from now president elect joe biden will have a very different approach. He will show what real federal leadership means, but by then we will be in the throes of the worst pandemic that weve seen since it began. It did not have to be this bad. We should have funded a National Response to this pandemic months and months agoing. It is beyond frustrating that there is this lastmoment political theater by trump who after being absent from negotiations for weeks, after the bill passed, suddenly reverses himself and demands 2,000 checks, which his own secretary of the treasury did not support in negotiations and republicans in the senate did not support. So, frankly, for folks who are watching, who may be frustrated at the lack of clarity, let me boil it down for you. For eight months, democrats have tried to deliver broader, bigger, more timely response to americans in need and republicans in the senate have blocked those efforts. At the last moment here President Trump has finally signed a needed relief bill that will get 600 checks to over 150 million americans. Thats a positive. But this week in the senate, we will go back and forth and fight over it and ultimately i am concerned we will deliver nothing more beyond the bill thats already been signed into law. Youre not the only one concerned. Right . Millionals of americans are struggling. I actually fweet tweet to a lot of people following asking, did you get your relief payments this morning . Some havent necessarily gotten it. Others saying its in the bank but pending deposit until january 4th. Meaning not cleared until january 4th. Guess when rent is due . January 1 st. Not january 4th. Folks haves 20 or less, insufficient funds when they go to the atm. They need that relief money now. Ive harped on this all week but i think its important. We are you up against the 11th hour once again. Why are we always here . And in which americans are having to suffer . And have so much anxiety in getting their bills paid, and not getting things on time, whereas even this relief funding that, thank god, got passed, is still not available to them at this point . Yasmin, let me be clear. The bill that was passed by congress, President Trump refused to sign it for more than a week. Pushing back when unemployment checks will get out. Pushing back when rent relief will get out. And pushing back when the stimulus checks will be distributed. For months and months over the summer and fall, the house, which had already passed a 3 trillion relieve package, kept trying to get the senate to take it up. The senate is run by republicans. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell refused to take up a package of more than 500 billion. Thats a huge difference between what the house passed and what the senate was ever willing to consider. It was only when a Bipartisan Group of eight senators equal numbers of republicans and democrats, moved forward that we got the 900 billion package, which then trump held up. It has been enormously frustrating. Frankly, president elect biden is going to face a very tough situation when he becomes president in three weeks. I i know you dont have a lot of time left. I want to look ahead for one moment. What is the plan come january 20th, if democrats dont have control of the senate . At that point, what incentive does leader mcconnell have to help get legislation through the democrats think will benefit americans . He liked to look towards 2022 and see a democratic massacre, quite frankly and could feasibly get that if the Biden Administration cannot get legislation pushed through and mcconnell has power to block that if in fact republicans still have control of the senate . What is the plan . Yasmin, exactly why the Georgia Special election next tuesday where there are two senate seats at stake is so crucial. If republicans still control a majority in the senate, im afraid we may see a replay of what happened in 2009, where they refused to tldeliver the robust and broad relief then president obama was seeking in the middle of a keep recession. The failure to get that type of relief out of congress led to the loss of control of the house by democrats in 2010. We could easily see a replay of that scenario if Mitch Mcconnell is able to continue blocking more relief. The bill that we just passed is only a threemonth relief package. Its not what we really need to deal with folks facing eviction, job loss, hunger and homelessness. We need to do more, and my hope and prayer is that republicans will finally see the need for us to deliver the aid the American People deserve. Im predicting americans will need a heck of a lot more money even before end of january at this point, considering the way were going. Senator chris coons, thank you. Appreciate you joining us on this. As we mentioned, new concerns this morning on powerhouse going much slower than expected with just about 2 million americans receiving a shot so far. And president elect joe biden pointing a finger right at the kurcht a current administration. Geoff bennett has the latest. Good to talk to you. You heard me mention talking with senator chris coons, president elect as we well know at this point laid out some plans on what he wants to do differently going forward. Talk us through that. Reporter yeah. To put it all into context, the biggest difference between the trump approach and the biden approach is this the Trump Administration has been focused on distributing vaccines. That is where they say their responsibility ends. The biden approach is focused on distributing the vaccines and then making sure that theyre actually administered. Making sure they actually end up in peoples arms. As i and others reported at the start of the pandemic, the Trump Administration made a decision it would be the states that would be mainly responsible for at the time handling testing and acquiring protective gear. There was a political calculation involved in that, and the calculation was such that if there were problems if things went south it would be the governoring held responsible and not President Trump. What we heard from joe biden yesterday, he was raising red flags about this approach, because now there are real life consequences that were seeing. That consequence is what you just spoke to. You have Trump Administration officials who projected and pledged 20 million vaccinations. Not vaccines delivered but vaccinations by end of the year, and right now theyre running about 18 Million People short. So heres what joe biden had to say about that yesterday. So the Trump Administrations plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind. This will take more time than anyone would like, and the more time than the promises from the Trump Administration have suggested. This is going to be the greatest operational challenge weve ever faced as a nation. But we are going to get it done. Reporter so hes promising to pick up the pace as president and to do it says hell invoke the defense production act to ramp up production of more Raw Materials so that more vaccine can be produced, and to also create more protective gear so that vaccines can actually be administered and wants to create federallybacked vaccine sites and send mobile units out to hashed to reach areas of country and launch a Public Education campaign to increase vaccine acceptance. This is all part of his plan, his pledge to get 100 million shots in arms, as he piuts it, within the first 100 days of his presidency, yasmin. Gosh, lets hope it actually happens, especially seeing headlines out of china. Planning to get 15 million vaccinated by beginning of february. Geoff bennett in wilmington it delaware. Good to see you, my friend. Meanwhile, this morning the Louisiana Police department is taking steps to fire two officers from the Breonna Taylor case. A Department Spokesperson told nbc news that they plan to fire detective Joshua Jaynes obtained the noknock warrant and a lawyer for detective myles cosgrove, received notice of his termination after firing the shot that killed taylor. Both officers have the right to due process and in a predetermination hearing coming three months ar former officer Brett Hankison was charged with first degree wanton endangerment for his role in the raid. Breonna was killed three months ago in her apartment where they did not find any drugs. Coming up next, im grog oio ask a top Infectious Disease expert how its detected and how widespread it could be right now. Plus, President Trump continues to attack georgias governor. Now introducing a new Conspiracy Theory complete with a nonexistent brother, and brand new this morning what president elect biden is doing to help democrats pull out a victory with a runoff now only six days away. Well be right back. Ight bk and easy pickup. 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Here in the United States we dont do a great deal of surveillance. Dont do sequencing on the sample that we receive. We do very little of that and the uk has a very robust process in place where they do that very, very often. What happens now once that sample is ect whicollected it w through sequencing and be see that variant or not. Its ramping up here in the United States. Not where we need it to be. As you mentioned determined the first case, potentially the second case in colorado. Its not related to travel means its in the community and the likelihood of us having more of these cases is very, very high. Were going to ramp up s we need to ramp up surveillance more than were doing. Is it true its been here quite some time, this new variant and any way to make connection to the ballooning weve seen in the country . Safe to assume its already here in the United States. Causing the current surge that were seeing . That doesnt seem to be so because based on the current economic surveillance were doing, for example, here in new york, a significant push to continue to do sequencing, we havent detected it yet. Which means its not causing the current surge. Not to say it wont be the cause in the current surge to come. We need to collect more data, analyze the situation and monitor it very, very closely. What does it mean which they say 70 more contagious . Does it mean you and i sitting in a room together both have masks on theres a likelihood one has the variant they could pat it on . You touch a surface it stays on the surface longer . Touch it later i could pick it up . What does that actually mean in laymans terms, so folks can actually understand the c contagiousness of this variant . When we talk about the contagiousness of this variant were basing it on epidemiological modeling based on the fact theyre saying ve vedsofindividuals with the variant have ay whoer in mucous membrane, higher president to oth spread to others. A lot of information we still dont know. A lot still being collected. Good science does take time to collect. Base and its information that hasnt been made available, a higher viral load, may be more contagious to other people. Translate that into what does that actually mean, does it increase the, you know, the death rate, for example . Is it more riskier than the current variant were seeing in terms of increased hospitalization and death, thats not the case now. Seeing that its just a little more transmissible. Again, we need much more data to make more concrete decisions and really to provide more information. Yes, we know this, and no we dont know that. Right now a lot is speculation based on modeling information coming out. Again, a lot more questions than answers. Quickly unit want lly want to information from astrazeneca. Msnbc news news writes Oxford University researchers releases results from its phase three trial including one surprising detail. Trial too volunteers received a lower first dose of the vaccine, appeared to have higher protection. 90 against symptomatic covid19. Volunteers who received Standard Double dose regimen received around 62 protection. Combining the two gave the average of around 70 . As i spoke with my colleague Richard Engel saying essentially giving the two full doses, provides a lower efficacy, versus what they happened on accidentally, this half dose first and full dose on the second round. What do you make of this decision in the uk . Well, i think first, theres pros and cons. First, the good news is that we have another vaccine that is available for widespread use and this is a vaccine we were banking on for the world to use. Given some requirements. Seems to be safe and efficacious. I have a lot of questions on the interval and dosing and how they came up with that type of regimen. So i certainly have many more questions. I want to see more data that hasnt actually been released. Only the information made available through the press release. We need to see the data, more transparency and how they got to this number. Heres in the United States we probably wont see the astrazeneca come into use until quarter one of next year and see a lot more information from that, but i certainly have more questions right now than answers on what their regime is right now. As always with covid. Right . Doctor, thank you. Appreciate your time on this. Next to georgia, everybody. Where time is running out for early voting. The States Senate runoff as president elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris announcing theyre heading to the peach state in the final days before the runoff. Well be right back. Noff well be right back. 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One was mistakenly signed by a spouse. And one signed only on the front. Nbc News Reporter inside Gwinnett County elections headquarters in lawrenceville, georgia and joining me, atlanta constitutional journal reporter. Thanks for joining us on this. Walk us through quickly here the latest audit and the secretary of states findings. Reporter yasmin, that audit centered around absentee ballots signature matching exactly whats happening in this room behind me. Folks can observe the process. You see on the sign exactly whats happening. These folks have been working for the past couple of weeks looking at those signatures on their computers. Reviewing those envelopes coming in with the absentee ballots, making sure the signatures match before they are ultimately being opened and processed ahead of Election Night. And you mention that audit that took place in cobb county. 10 of the roughly 150,000 ballots that cobb county received were audited, and as you mentioned, they only found two sntincidences where there w issues. I pound out in both instances the voter who filled out that ballot was the actual voters it was an issue around the signature on the envelopes. The secretary of state confirmed results out of the state. We saw donald trump overnight tweeting continuing to attack the governor here, the secretary of state, and the election system as this Runoff Election is ongoing. I should point out notably earlier this month the secretary of state actually called for an end to no excuse absentsee ballot votes or absentee voting here and comes after a year that saw historic numbers in terms of absentee voting because of the pandemic. Yasmin . And before i move on to patricia, quickly i want to know. How are republicans in the state, how are they responding to the recent relief bill . Especially considering this 2,000 direct pay mcconnell has not brought to a vote on the senate floor as of yet, and some folks saying essentially hes doing it for georgia, for georgia republicans . Reporter right. Well, after President Trump made that announcement he was calling for 2,000 for stimulus, we didnt hear a lot of firm answers from those gop candidates, but yesterday both of them came out in support of the president s call for that additional stimulus, and i had an opportunity to catch up with theofstacey abrams and ask her what democrats make of that and take a listen to what she had to say. And if they dont force Mitch Mcconnell to take up this legislation today, dont use the power sitting senators to serve georgia then its just a campaign stunt. And i find it very interesting that two people decried direct payments, have mocked those who needed this help suddenly decide eight, seven days before the election on the road to damascus they suddenly decide direct payments of 2,000 makes sense. Reporter and were hearing a similar message on the campaign trail from those democratic candidates. So this is going to remain an issue on the trail as we barrel on to election day on tuesday. Yasmin . Patricia, you know, youve been looking into this a lot. I think one of the things ive thought a lot about is how much this relief bill in general, or the lack thereof, shall we say, up against the 11th hour is effecting georgia voters. How many inspired to turn out because of lack of relief seen from washington over the last nine months and now getting this bill on the 11th hour but still not the 2,000 direct pay on the senate floor and out to americans . Do you think this is going to be a driving force in this runoff . I think the only thing it could do is just harden peoples opinions about the candidates that they already support. We have an extremely polarized electorate down here but we know about the republicans feel like these direct payments are very important. Not only because they both come out for the 2,000 payments, also because david perdue is one of his final ads going into election day was about covid relief and about the direct payments to georgians. In every speech we find the republicans are talking about pandemic relief and talking about getting aid directly into the hands of georgian s. Are think own voters making the distinction . Not as much as i thought you would give me . A lot of those voters have already voted. Cast ballots. I dont know if its deciding but driving democratic voters they need to get out to the ofpolls, frustrated with the senators. Also a question about republicans in talking about voter turnout. Right . The president s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, which we know are completely false and baseless, and then the president s continued attacks on the georgia governor. Perdue actually asked about this on fox friends earlier this morning, if, in fact, these attacks are hurting his race. Heres what he had to say. Senator, has your race been made more difficult by President Trumps constant criticism and brow beating of your governor and secretary of state . Absolutely not. I think that what the president is doing is exercising his right. All right, patricia. A. , do you think hes right . And, b. , what do you make of voter turnout when you have the president continuously saying the 2020 election was false when he, was fraudulent when we know thats completely false . The president s comments have been incredibly damaging for republicans for a couple reasons. Number one, republicans have not been able to have a unified message this election day and talking only about the runoff. And the president also attacked georgia republicans, telling georgia republicans voters you cannot trust half of the people you have already just elected. By the way, the last election was a fraud. Then go vote again on january 5th. I talked to voters at every single gop event i go to. None of them believe, not one of them believe, that the last election was counted fairly. The people at these events are highly motivated, are going to vote. We have polling that shows 2 5 of georgia republicans and most conservative republicans are concerned about their votes, and i think an appreciable number saying they wont socievote. See if it makes a difference on election day. It is a problem. Thank you two. Appreciate it. Georgia Senate Runoff is one of the many elections Steve Kornacki helped us understand this year and there were a lot. Hes back next with what we learned from 2020 politics, and then what to watch in 2021. Well be right back. Robinhood believes now is the time to do money. Without the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Welcome back. It almost goes without saying but 2020 was a year unlike anything we have ever seen in our lifetimes. We saw long voting lines like these during the primaries, and the general election. Both during a pandemic, leading to the highest turnout election that we have ever seen. And we just told you it is not over yet with Senate Control hanging in the balance with georgias runoffs just six days from now. I want to go to nbcs Steve Kornacki at the big board. Aside from the fact we learned people love your gap khakis, kornacki, what else did we learn this year . Ah, well, lets yeah. I didnt expect that with the pants either myself, but lets talk about the election this year. What did we learn from the election of 2020 . A couple things jump out to me. You mentioned number one. I dont even know the right adjective to describe this but the interest level in politics, interest level in elections among people in this country is at an astonishing high. The turnout number for the five previous president ial elections before this year. You see barely over 100 million back in 2000. Population is growing in this time. So its going um somewhat. You see it hit 136 million in 2016. Then the trump era begins. He gets elected. We have four years of just political combat and look at this. Nearly 160 Million People cast votes this year. I mean look at that jump. Nearly 25 million from the last election. Geez. Nots just a growing population. Thats astornishing, astonishing voter participation. Were by the way, a president the election this year. 2018 midternlt as well. Turnout level for that 30 million higher than youve seen in a midit weremidterm election past. Marked by astonishing levels of voter interest. Also we learned this year we did not have for the third time this century did not have a disconnect between the winner of the popular vote, joe biden, and the winner of the Electoral College that happened in 2000 and 2016. Democrats nervous it would happen again this year but lined up this year. I point this out, because we came very, very close in 2020 to having the biggest disconnect wed ever seen. Joe biden won wisconsin by 20,000 votes. Won georgia by just under 12,000 votes. He won arizona just over 10,000 votes. If those it three states had gone to donald trump, it would have taken that much of the changes in each one of those states. Those had gone to trump this election would have gone to the house of representatives. Tied at 269. Would have gone to the house. I think republican wos have had the votes in the house to reelect trump. We almost had a situation where there was about a 7 million vote difference between the candidates and the candidate on the short end of that in the popular vote won the Electoral College. Almost happened this year and a time on Election Night it looked like 2 might. What else have we learned this year . Who moved. Who changed their minds over the last four years from trump winning to trump losing. What voters changed their minds. Demographically look at exit polls. White voters in particular with a clollege degree. Tend to be suburbs, metro areas, outside cities. Give you an example of this. Mentioned wisconsin. Joe biden narrowly wins the state by 20,000 votes. Trump had won the state by 20 t. Trump had won it by 20,000 four years earlier. There was democratic improvement in these three suburban counties. Theyre still republican, not nearly as republican as weve seen before. So suburbs in wisconsin, suburbs in pennsylvania, suburbs around the country, that is where you saw the biggest change. Uses yasmin, thats why theres a new president in a few weeks. Coming up next, to rhode island, why prisoners and correctional employees are at the top of the list to get the coronavirus vaccine. Well be right back. List to gee coronavirus vaccine. Well be right back. Im searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like im just wasting time. Thats why Td Ameritrade designed a firstofitskind, personalized education center. Oh. Their awardwinning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. And it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. So its like my streaming service. Well except now youre binge learning. See how you can become a smarter investor with a personalized education from Td Ameritrade. Visit tdameritrade. Com learn welcome back. Right now covid is raging out of control across this country, and our prisons are no exception. A study just released this month found incarcerated people are four times as likely to get this virus, and twice as likely to die from it. Valerie castro is outside the Rhode Island Department of corrections in cranston. Good to see you this morning, valerie. You spoke with the medical director there, and he seemed to be in favor of vaccinating prisons. Why . Reporter good morning, yasmin. We spoke to dr. Justin burke. He says this really is an issue about Public Health and safety as a whole. He points out not all incarcerated individuals have life sentencing, eventually many will be released back, and its important to protect those people as well as family and friends they go home to. Also, the staff at these facilities, they interact with each other on a daily basis, and of course they go home to families. Its important to make sure they are protected as well. Sadly the department of corrections here in rhode island has experienced a few deaths this year. Two inmates passed away earlier this year, and just before christmas, a Corrections Office passed away. The doctor says for all of these reasons its important to get all these people vaccinated. Despite high walls, deed spite his fences, no jail is an island. People are coming in and out. Correction officers, attorneys, social workers. Again its a Public Health strategy that helps protect the entire community. Reporter and yasmin, about 150 people have been vaccinated here. We should point out that not every inmate is eligible for this vaccination. They are focusing on those who are at high risk, perhaps 65 and older who, who have Underlying Health issues, maybe immunocompromised, so just as the general population its not available to every incarcerated person at this time. Yasmin . Valerie castry in rhode island, thank guy that wraps up the hour for me. Ill be back here tomorrow morning. 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