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today i am announcing that if you come by a harris county public health site, and get your first shot of covid-19 vaccine, you will get $100, no strings attached. there is our next guest judge lina hidalgo last week today judge hidalgo announced that the number of people getting the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine in harris county in texas increased by 78% since she announced the cash incentive. yesterday, texas republican governor greg abbott who has issued an order banning mask mandates issued a new executive ....
Progress and say stop. and advance what we all know is coming, representative government for the state of texas. and we have these efforts diversifying rapidly, and it s coming to a head, and we have to understand for us to continue as a democracy, we have to allow people to vote and let it come as it will. you will win some and lose some. you have to change some of your policies. that s how democracy works. and that to me is what has been so sad for me watching texas for the last ten, 15, 20 years. we have been seeing it diversify, and the efforts to try and stop that, and maintain these old power structures. texas congressman colin allred, thank you for joining us tonight, we always appreciate it. thanks lawrence. coming up, judge lina hidalgo in harris county, texas has dramatically increase the vaccination rate in her county. and is now in a legal fight ....
Order banning vaccine mandates, even if the vaccine has been fully approved by the fda like the pfizer vaccine. judge hidalgo has issued a mask mandate for schools in harris county. joining us now is harris county judge lina hidalgo. thank you very much for joining us, we really appreciate it. thank you. let s begin with what you re doing on the vaccine with those hundred dollar bills. has it surprised you how effective it has been? absolutely. it exceeded our wildest expectations, and i have to credit the biden administration for highlighting that 100 dollar figure, in those incentives. we launched the program this tuesday, we had over 3000 people get the vaccine out are harris county sites, on average, before we started the initiative it was about 430 people a day. so it is continuing to increase. it just shows you that you can be creative, you can be bold, you can move the needle on this ....
To get the work done. but it seems like with this pandemic, it is a competition amongst republican governors to see who can be the first to politicize thinks. how does it make sense from a health standpoint, from a medical standpoint, to rush to say an fda approved vaccine can t be required, when so many vaccines are required in different kinds of settings? and so, i hope that as these hospitalizations climb, right here in harris county, we have people waiting hours and hours for a hospital bed, right now, as we speak. it is a real problem. these are real people. real deaths, that somehow we can get past the politics. until then, we all have to keep pushing it in the right direction. judge lina hidalgo, thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you. thank you. and coming up, a day like today has happened only once before ....
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