Clinics suspended for Vaccinating Teachers President Biden vowing to act vowing to a fast on covid relief taking a major step closer going alone without republican support. The Winter Storm Threat and windchills as low as 50 below al roker is tracking for us a mail delay everything from medications to bills arriving late what you can do about it paying tribute to the oscar winner, the music legend and dogs all looking for homes. This is nbc nightly news with meet the stars this weekend and theyre lester holt. Good evening everyone, last night we told you of the welcome decline in Covid Infections ande decline of new Covid Infections and hospitalizations. Tonight we are talking about what health hospitalizations, well, tonight we are talking about what Health Officials fear could send soaring backup against, super bowl Watch Parties to virtual Covid Incubators incubators. Think of a lot of loud cheering and a lot of people. You get the idea and tonight avoiding gatherings just as critic
News, the president is speaking out about trumps behavior, whether he should get Intelligence Briefings, whether he would vote to impeach if he were still in the senate. I ran like hell to defeat him because i thought he was unfit to be president. I watched what everybody else watched, what happened when that crew invaded the United States congress. But im not in the senate now, i will let the senate make that decision. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not . Because of his erratic related to the insurrection. What is your worst fear if he continues to get these Intelligence Briefings . I would rather not speculate out loud. I just think that there is no need for him to have that Intelligence Briefing. What value is giving him an Intelligence Briefing . What impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and Say Something . Tonight the latest reporting from the New York Times says trumps defense lawyers, bruce castor and
The u. S. By end of march. All of these mutations, fauci emphasized can be stopped or slowed by increase in vaccinations. Viruses cannot mutate if they dont replicate. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possibly can will always be the best way to prevent the further evolution of any mutant, because when you do that, you prevent replication and replication is essential for mutation. Joining me now to talk about this is primary care doctor, a Public Health special iist. What do you think about 66 effectiveness . Im excited, brianne florida. Weve been spoiled with results from pfizer and moderna which is 95 effective as you just mentioned. Listen, this is still 85 effective in preventing severe disease and 100 effective in preventing deaths. The more vaccines, brianna, we have on the market the quicker we can vaccinate as many people. I always tell a lot of my patients, its not necessarily just the number of vaccinations. Its the pa
he joins me to tell us his inspiring story, coming up. storp good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and le
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Berkshire Medical Center was prepared Monday for the first delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. The vaccine, given emergency authorization for use last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, must be kept at super cold temperatures of at least minus-70 degree Celsius. It s being distributed in a packaging the so-called pizza box that will allow doses to be kept cold with dry ice for at least a few weeks. But it s easier to use an ultra-cold freezer, which arrived at BMC on Wednesday from the Berkshire Innovation Center. We are deeply grateful to the Berkshire Innovation Center and its staff for helping Berkshire Health Systems in its efforts to effectively distribute the COVID-10 vaccine, Director of Media Relations Michael Leary wrote in an email.