this snowball effect rolling and continue to get people vaccinated. matthew, what are you going to tell your friends and family if they re wondering about getting the vaccine? go ahead and get it done, it s not that bad. get it done. it s not that bad. not that bad, that s the review so far. matthew mallory, can t thank you enough, first for coming to the town hall, been a great lesson for millions of people now. dr. joan, matthew s mother, thank you very much. and dr. kizzee corbett. we ll never be able to thank you enough but thank you once again for joining us, thank you very much. thank you all, we really appreciate this. has been a great day. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. we have much more ahead in
joan seafuss who is a doctor of educational psychology. joining us from walgreens, kizzy, this is a very, very exciting day. i really wasn t sure this was going to happen. what is it like for you, your vaccinating america one shot at a time and this was a big conversion for you. you know, every single time someone decides to be vaccinated, it is extremely exciting for me. i will never get tired of hearing that people have made the choice to be vaccinated and more over whatever my voice could be the beacon of that change, i am so happy. i m thankful for matthew and his mom for coming out today and of course i was so thrilled to come all the way to virginia to make sure that it happened. matthew, how do you feel? i feel good, sir. so i kizzy obviously chased you down in the theater
going to get your second shot, then two weeks after, considered fully vaccinated. where do you want to go if you can travel in six weeks? actually i have a trip planned, planning to go to jamaica. oh, and dr. corbett, you have a family relationship with jamaica? i do. i do. my brother-in-law is from jamaica, so i m very excited that matthew is going to be able to experience jamaica. told him i m going to hop in his suitcase because i need a break. part of your life now. what do you want to say to kizzee today, she worked years and years to develop this vaccine, worked very hard, more than overtime when covid-19 hit figuring out exactly how to
kizzy corbett was ready last january to quickly develop a vaccine model that moderna used for their covid-19 vaccine. dr. corbett has saved hundreds of millions of lives with the moderna vaccine and sometimes she has to do it one shot at a time. dr. corbett met matthew mallory at msnbc town hall vaccinating america three weeks ago but was unable to convince him that night to get the vaccine, then a week later matthew and his mother met dr. corbett at a walgreens in virginia where dr. corbett watched as they both received the moderna vaccine that she had helped develop. here is our interview with dr. kizzy corbett, matthew mallory and dr. joan seafuss at the walgreens that day. joining us now. dr. kizzy corbett, matthew mallory and matthew s mother dr.
became more educated and dr. corbett really inspired me to get the vaccine. now, you just listened to dr. corbett on the town hall and then today when you met her at walgreens, that is the first time you ve had a chance to talk to her beyond what you heard on the town hall, isn t that right? that s correct. yeah. and so when you say dr. corbett was the key to convincing you to get this vaccine? yes, dr. corbett was the key because she was the key that convinced my son to get it so it was like a snow ball effect. she convinced my son to get it and then it snowballed to me for me to get it. kizzy, what have you learned about reluctance and you have learned anything new about reluctance in talking to matthew and his mother? you know, lawrence, one of the things that i found in the