kind of good and bad at the same time because it's like, it's something that just -- it affects everybody. >> yeah. yeah. >> at the same time, it's like, something that we need because we were so blessed to be able to go on the road. to be able to go in places and play. now that we're not, it's like all the muse sigss are really -- >> i love it. i'm only jumping in because i got do land it to joy reid. i want to thank you bootsie collin and al sharpton for ending the week right. keep it locked right here. joy reid is up next.

good evening, every one. welcome to a very special edition of the reid out. our virtual town hall on race and america's covid crisis. we have got a gorgeous live zoom audience who will be with us throughout the night. we're one year into the pandemic. we wanted to hear if you, the american people. many you have submitted questions for this event and here is what you wanted to know. >> will we be with can coronavirus and it's other mutants till 2022 and beyond? >> help us understand the difference between the pfizer va vaccine, moderna. >> how do you overcome the skepticism. >> will the current vaccines protect us from future variants of covid? >> when will we be able to get

to some kind of normal. >> this once in sustain global pandemic has up ended billions of lives worldwide. more than 510,000 american lives have been lost with black and brown americans much more likely to get infected. u.s. like expectancy dropped by a year in first half of 2020. latinx people for years. it's impacted every aspect of our lives. two vaccines available and a third by johnson & johnson that fda advisory panel has just approved. even with more vaccines, it may still take months to vaccinate the american public. the roll out is serving as a disturbing mirror for who gets

to thrive and who gets left behind. we will shed right on the racial inequities that plague this country and what can be done about it. we have got a lot to cover so let's just jump right in. joining me now is white house chief medical adviser and leading infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci. congresswoman joyce beatty of ohio. congresswoman brenda lawrence of michigan, second vice claire of the cbc. i want to start with you chairwoman beatty. thank you for joining us and getting together with us to do this. this is so important. i have to ask you this question. what does it say about this country that a pandemic that has affected the entire world has become a race and equities issue and inequality issue in this country? >> first of all, joy, let me thank you for being here. i'm kpieptxcited and looking fo

to hearing from our constituents and those calling in. i think you hit it on the nail. it's very devastating wen we think of the coronavirus, we cannot think of it as a single issue. it's the economic issue and also the social justice issues. we know how it has affected us. it has affected us as we look at housing, as we look at small businesses. people are being effected. we put forbearances on mortgages. it's affecting us like no other disease, no other epidemic has. that's because for black americans, we were already behind. there were already disparities. we know in health care, we're treated disproportionately already.

that's why the congressional black caucus is being so involved. >> is facing this equity issue, is it about investment, social change, some combination? what is the priority to change this? >> we're witnessing the intersection of the issues that plaque america are facing. health disparity. the fact we die at a higher rate than any other ethnic group. the fact we're looking at access to health care. we're looking at historic fear of vaccine and a fear of the health care industry because are they going to hurt us, harm us, ignore us or are they going to help us. today that's why this -- this is black history month. this is a time for us to look at this intersection of challenges we have in america when it comes

to black america, health care and this virus has ripped the scab off of so many. >> you have been at this for a long time. it is sadly kind of the rule at this point that each of these pandemics does wind up being a racial disparities issue. what can we do about that in your view? >> well there are a couple of things you can do and you can do things immediately such as make sure we have equal access or equity to the interventions that would be important. the one we're facing right now is to make sure with two vaccines that have gotten approval, moderna and pfizer and now as you just mentioned, correctly, a j and j vaccine has been voted of approval by the advisory board to fda and it looks like that's going to be imminent they will get their eua. we got to make sure that there's

equal access to this life saving of the african-american community. we need that. >> absolutely. i could ask all of you questions for a solid hour. we're not going to do that. we are here to take the questions from our wonderful audience. hundreds you have sent in questions. we'll get right to them. among the questions thatwe received, the most were about vaccine access. here are two people, kathy and pat, who are both eligible to receive vaccine but have not been able to navigate the system. >> i'm a 69-year-old female. i live in new jersey. i work in philadelphia. i've been on multiple lists trying to get vaccinated. i stood in line for over three hours. when i got to the the front of the line, i was told i didn't have a philadelphia address and

photo id. i wasn't eligible. i would like to know what i need to do so i can get vaccinated? >> i have preexisting conditions yet i can't get vaccine. my question is if you say minorities aren't getting vaccinated, perhaps it's because they're not a priority. why not make them a priority so they can get vaccinated? >> dr. fauci, i'm going throw both of those questions to you. >> it's very unfortunate that the first person who made the comment had to go through that very difficult and i'm sure burdensome experience of getting up to the line and finding out that she could not do that. the biden administration is trying very hard to make sure we can expedite and make as easy as possible the accessibility of vaccines to every one but also particularly to people of color,

the brown and black people in our population. they are in the areas that are demographically heavily weighted towards minority populations to make it easier to get through the process. also pharmacies making sure that vaccines are available and she doesn't have to go through the experience she went to and even having mobile units that actually go to not easy to access areas. we're trying very hard to make sure that experience that she had is not repeated. the situation with priorities, she has a underlying condition and that is now one of the priorities that will be next up on the priority list. when we had the priorities there were phase 1a, phase 1b and then phase 1c will be people who are

at any age, 16 and up, who have an underlying condition. hopefully we'll get that and get the vaccine to her and people just like her as quickly as possible. >> before we move onto the next question, i want to give you an opportunity, is there anything the the covid relief bill that will make that easier? to prioritize people who should be in line getting the vaccine but are not? >> absolutely. there are dollars set in there for us to do education and awareness because the first lady, we should have had or she should have been able know what she needed before going there and getting in front of the line. the other thing is, we have put $350 billion in this plan for emergency funding but for vaccine distribution and as dr. fauci said, we have areas that get to. we did the essential workers and now we're coming up with the

different levels. we need to make sure they are in our communities. we even put dollars in there, some $20 billion for transportation. we know a will the of people in our communities don't have access to getting to the points of where they can go. between the distribution, dollars, the education and awareness putting them in our communities that should be very helpful because there are so many disparities. >> indeed. let's go to another question. diamani from las vegas is a student at howard university at washington, d.c. his question is about the transparency of the vaccine trials. >> many black people live with preexisting conditions and many have died more than other ethnic graup groups. have black folk, especially those with pre-existing conditions been properly represented and tested within the trials and research for

these vaccines? >> it's a huge question. dr. fauci, i'm going to ask you to take that one. >> thank you, joy. that's a great question. we have tried, and i believe succeeded for the most part in getting representation in the major trials to get people of color as well as those who have underlying conditions. it was not easy for a number of reasons. in fact, we spent about 10 saturdays in a row working with the leaders of the company that was doing the trial to try and help them because of the experience that we've had over the years in making sure there's proper representation of minority groups in the clinical trial. in fact, we did succeed in the moderna trial it was over 10% where african-american. it was about 20 to 21% in latina. in the novax trial it was 1%

african-american and well over 20% were latinx. we made a special effort to make sure that you are represented so when we say vaccine is safe and effective, it's safe and effective for every one, including you and your community. >> thank you. we have two questions about people who might be hsitant to get the vaccine. first comes from swan, a high school art teacher. she's concerned with some thoefz with strong opinions in her community might refuse to get vaccinated. >> how can we help the naysayers consider receive the vaccine so we may protect our entire community as a whole? >> keeping that in mind, the next question is about distrust but this time of the medical community. here is emeri, a visual merchandiser from the virgin islands who lives in brooklyn new york. >> as you can see, there's only a small percentage of camp

american people that have taken this vaccine. that is because we actually don't trust the doctors. for someone like myself who is not willing to take the vaccine, convince me on why i should take it. >> i'm going to through that to you congresswoman lawrence. >> thank you so much. joy, as we look at the challenges that we have with the deaths, with covid, when we look at the responsibility that we have to ensure that mie community that the black community is effectively vaccine, i want to say to every one that i was confronted when i was delaying myself to get the vaccine and i'm proud to say i've had both of my shot. the question to me was, why are you delaying. i said, some people are getting sick. i don't know if it's been tested. my friend who is a doctor said, brenda, if you get sick, i can fix that.

if you die, i can't fix that. i need you. i need your contribution. i will say to every one, especially my health care workers, my god, we could not have survivored without you being there for us. we need you to live. this vaccine does not discriminate. it will take away any life. it hurts me when i see a line of people getting vaccines and my people are not represented. i'm invited to the funerals of those who have died. i have taken the vaccine. i believe in it. i need my people, my community, to step up. we've had ministers open their church to give them a safe environment. we've had the community health centers been funded through our covid relief plan so they can be right in the neighborhoods to help my brown and black community who they serve every day. i do encourage every one to please, i need you alive. i want you to take the vaccine.

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disproportionate rate than white people. what efforts are made to work more closely with leaders of the black community to improve the distribution of the vaccine. >> dr. fauci, i'll throw that to you. >> in are a number of things that are being done. some i mentioned before. namely the community vaccine centers that are in the areas where demographically represented more by minority communities. pharmaies that are getting vaccines in the area as well as mobile units to get to the poorly accessible areas. importantly, where president biden has established is an equities task forc which is shared by dr. smith whose job is to do exactly what you're referring to. how do we make sure we look in every way possible to make sure there is equitiable distribution of these life saving vaccines to the minority community.

it's a top priority of president biden. >> it's an excellent answer. let's take the next yes. this is one is for representatives beatty and lawrence. darika of el paso, texas is pursuing her masters in health administration from george washington university. she as a question about access to the vaccine. >> have you reached out to zern communities and asked what locations will be more convenient in order to participate in receiving the vaccine. also have you thought about incentivizing for those who sever the shot in. >> congresswoman beatty. >> absolutely. thank you for that question. for the congressional black caucus we have four nurses within the congressional black caucus. we are reaching out in our own communities. let me tell you about in the heart land of it all in ohio. we have a young dr. by the name

of laurel espy beall who put a vad owe to talk about what you're talking about. it's all young, black doctors and these doctors all will give you a statement about why you should get it. the ramifications if you don't get it. where you can go and they have made themselves available to our younger folks because it's so important for you to know where you can go and because of the disparities, it's really important for us to have community access. we have churches. we have health centers. the biggest thing, if you don't know where to go, if you don't know about it, then you can't do it.

>> congresswoman lawrence, same question. >> one of the things we're doing in detroit which i think is really powerful, the mayor designated saturday as senior day. if you're age 60, you can pick up a senior and bring them to the testing center. it's not about you going online and going through all of this procedure. it's opening it up so that seniors who we know are the ones that are most critical that they have access to testing, day they can figure out on saturday. they can get their son our daughter to get them in car, take them there or call for transportation. when you talk about giving incentives, i know there's dialogue about travel and other things that can happen if you get your vaccine. we're not there yet. we still have too many people that need to step up. one issue i need to bring forward is that a lot of people are bypassing the second shot.

the first shot does not complete the job. you have to get the second one so you're fully all of the benefits of the vaccine. having the mobile trucks to go into the communities like dr. fauci said. >> let's get one more question in. next up is andrew from just outside springfield, missouri. he has a question for dr. fauci about the speed of vaccine distribution. >> when the johnson & johnson vaccine gets approved, if it gets approved for emergency distribution, does the mean the roll out of the vaccines that were already is expected to get faster? >> dr. fauci. >> it won't -- it's going to get

faster because we're getting better and better at it. once the j and j vaccine gets into the mix, as it were, it will be treated exactly like the others in the distribution and the planning to get it out. the more vaccines we have in the mix, the quicker you get vaccines out. i believe if you look at next couple of months, there's going to be rather substantial increment in the amount of vaccine that's going be available. once that occurs, you can start mass vaccination procedures which will answer your question about speed. the entire process will speed up. >> i have so many questions. i think i have about an hour's worth. aisle going to hold back. we have to take break opinion the come woman will be back with us in a bit. drchl fauci issticking with us

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joining me is denise fair. and pastor of st. moses and ceo of the neighborhood resilience project. we have a ton of questions. i want to ask father paul. you're going door to door talking with folks about getting your vaccines, about participating in the process of trying to rescue ourselves from this crisis. what are you hearing a t the drrs. what kind of questions are you getting and concerns are you hearing? >> it's so good to be with you. thank you so much for having me. there's three themes. first would be the mistrust of government. there's a deep history of government failure in our community. the government's role is concerning to people. the second is clinical abuse. it's not just about tuskegee. we have plenty of abuse that's lived experience even in this generation, racism that's experienced in health care

system that gives people pause. we hear people thinking this is a ploy to help those that are rich become richer. what we have done is taken this approach not to convince people but disseminate information. believing with the right information they can make the best choice and it's had tremendous affect with that approach. >> we had so many questions that got right to the issue of wa you're talk about. this comes from dante of portsmith, virginia that says covid is the reason he's running for the virginia house of delegates. >> we're giving the undeniable fact that communities of color, specifically african-american communities are denied the same access to medical resources. what steps are the federal and state and local government

prepared to make sure equity within vaccination distribution? >> let me say that detroit was hit hard. we lost close to 2,000 of our close neighbors and friends. most of those people who we lost were seniors. that is why it's so important we bring the vaccine directly to our most vulnerable. we want to do an equitiable way. the city of detroit, what we done is bring the vaccine directly to our most vulnerable. we're out in the community. we are making sure that we're going to senior apartment, we're using our mobile clinics to vaccinate those in mental health facilities. we have massive drive through which i believe is the most efficient place in the country. fur our seniors we have partnered with our clergy.

they have opened their doors to us and made sure that seniors have the opportunity to get their vaccine. >> probably dr. fauci is writing that down and will roll that out nationwide. our next question is from a writer in jersey city, new jersey. she and her family are eager to get the vaccine but most of them, including her 75-year-old mom, cannot get appointments. >> my question is, why are states and municipalities requiring residency requirements. why aren't people who come to a vaccine center being required to show proof of where they live before being given access to vaccines that were designated for impacted communities.

>> i hear about this all the time. people coming from outside the community who are wealthy and have access lining up in communities of color and getting the vaccines. what can be done about that? >> well, i think the registration process really has to change. if we're talking about an online registration process, it's going to favor people who have better access to those digital platforms. we have to think if we're going to disseminate links to sign up and register for people to come to vaccine centers, those people who have access to online registration as well as transportation and even sometimes a social support system to help them navigate the complexities of online registration. they will be first to get the vaccine. we need to look at a different way of doing this. building up phone banks become important. we have had to do this in partnership with our local health department in helping facilitate community vaccination

as well as we should have community health deputies that are able to go door to door and register people. we can take people from our community and deputize them in the effort. we're going to see these inequities happen around vaccine centers. >> should you only be limited to the zip code where you live to get vaccinated? >> i do not believe that is best. the reason i say that is because in some of our communities, it's not -- we have had so much displacement over the years that we have people who still consider, for example, our neighborhood their home but have been displaced to add joining neighborhoods or in some cases neighborhoods that are maybe three neighborhoods or more away. this is still their home. this is where their comfort level is. i think because of the displacement we have to be open to people who really are

leverage their social networks staying within certainly the demographic of our community. using that is an opportunity to bring those of our neighborhoods, family member, brothers and sisters to places that are comfortable with so they can receive the vaccine. >> all right. her man from the bronx. december trust in the scientific community due to the notorious airmen. take a listen. >> i would like to know the controversial surrounding the experiment, how can we if african-american, latinb o, asian and indigenous community people ta once the vaccine is distributed it will not be tamp erped with before it goes into our arms and it will be safe and effective? >> dr. fauci, i'm so glad someone add this question. a lot of people do. it's ironic because tuskegee was

about with holding medicine, not giving something that was tainted. please answer that question. >> i think the first thing you have to do is you have to respect that skepticism because it's well founded. once you say that you do respect the fact that you do have it to try and explain that the egregious ethical violations that have occurred that led to the tuskegee incident and subsequent types of incidents now have ethical constraints put in place that would make repetition of that essentially impossible. that's the first thing. the other part of that question was how can you be sure what's being put into your arm is really safe and effective? the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine has been determined

by the clinical trial of tens thouf sands peechl, including african-americans, latina and whites. the decision as to whether or not it's safe and effective is not made by federal government or by the company in case understand understandably might have some skepticism about that. it's made by independent data and safety monitoring board who is are responsible for the general public. not to the administration and not the the drug company. the ultimate decision as was made today by the advisory committee regarding johnson & johnson was an independent advisory committee. the entire process was transparent and independent. finally, the fact that the people, whiep i myself, and the president of the united states and vice president kamala harris publicly got vaccinated with the

same vaccine that we want to put into the arms of every one, including black and brown people to protect them, to save their lives, that of their community and that of the country. >> very important. very important point. thank you. we have so much more of our special reid out virtual town hall on race and covid, still to come. don't go anywhere. we'll be right back.

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covid's still a threat. and on reopening schools, we know what happens when we don't put safety first. ignore proper ventilation or rates of community spread, and the virus worsens. fail to provide masks or class sizes that allow for social distancing, and classrooms close back down. a successful reopening requires real safety and accountability measures. including prioritizing vaccines for educators. parents and educators agree: reopen schools. putting safety first. welcome back to this special edition of the read out. the virtual town hall on race and america. back with me is dr. anthony fauci. back with me is director of the national health and health. we'll do this as a lightning round. i have a bunch of questions.

robin from los angeles has a popular question that goes to the question of whether this new single dose vaccine will start to create almost like a rich person/poor person dichotomy between the vaccines. >> i want to know if any vaccine is better than the other for african-americans? i've heard that pfizer is the best but then johnson & johnson, you only need one shot. what vaccine would you recommend and does it matter? >> dr. gibbons. >> at this point we're fortunate we have three options, presuming that all three get the eua and the good news is all three are very effective at preventing the most severe consequences of covid, hospitalization and death. the recommendation is for america to get vaccinated.

>> very quickly, dr. fauci, there's a lot of people who are saying if you have a one dose vaccine then people will start to shunt off poorer communities to get the johnson & johnson because they don't have to worry about them coming back. are we going to find a sort of vaccine where people push one toward people of color and the other are for the affluent? >> we're aware of that consideration and that possibility. there's going to be equity distribution in the same way so there isn't that deliberate or inadvertent to be putting vaccines and shunting them to one group or the other. getting back to the question you asked and dr. gibbons answered correctly. all three are good vaccines. if i were in the situation where they said this is ready now, take it. i'd have the one that's most

available to me and i would take any one of the three. >> our next question from dr. leez lee. >> when is the capacity going to meet us at the practictioner level where we could dispense just as we do the flu vaccine in our local clinics an offices? >> dr. gibbons. >> this is being ruled out in variety of settings. the front line practictioners are important part of that system. in particular related to this topic today, fairly qualified health centers will be a prime site to safely treat an care if so many in communities of color. >> our next question is from jack in indianapolis. he's one of our youngest and most adorable viewers. >> i'm ten years old. i live if indianapolis.

when will us kids be able to get the vaccine? >> dr. fauci. >> great question. right now, the trials have shown that by the time we get to the beginning of the fall, the fall school term, likely there will be enough evidence of the safety and of the efficacy of high school students. namely people from 12 up to 17 or 18. the trials on what's called an age deescalation from going to 12 to 9, 9 to 6, 6 to 2 and through six months to two years, that will likely be by the end of the year and more likely by first quarter of 2022. very likely ta young children in elementary school will be able to get the vaccine at the beginning of 2022. >> let's go to an interesting question from alberto in castro

valley, california. he's one of the 28 million diagnosed with covid. >> as a person who suffered covid back in june 2020 and continue to deal with the linger effect such as fatigue, migraine, headaches, short ens of breath. how much dose, if any, of the vaccine do you recommend based on the current immunity within my body? >> dr. gibbons. >> it appears that he has wa we're calling the post-acute syndrome of covid-19 where there are individual who is have lingering symptoms after much of the virus has been cleared from their bodies. it's clear that we're still studying that at nih. it will be important for him to be vaccinated in order to be sure there's no recurrence of the infection.

>> all right. here is one more. connie from cleveland has a question on vaccine immunity. >> my question is, how long will the vaccine last and will i have to take it again in another agan in another year or two? >> this one is for you, dr. fauci. but if i could add ann, we had gabriel with a question that we can't get in. can you add to that question, and is the vaccine safe to take if somebody is hiv positive or is immunocompromised. the answer to the second question is absolutely. people who have hiv or people who are immunocompromised should definitely get the vaccine because they need it as much or more than anyone because they are immunocompromised and they are more likely to get a serious complication if n fact, they get infected. so the vaccine is very important for them. regarding the question of how long it lasts, we don't know

that right now. because we have just begun the process of vaccinating people. we know it lasts at least six months because we have followed people that long from the clinical trials. likely, and i hope it will be much longer than that. the way we find out is by following people over months to years. most of the vaccine trials have a two-year duration period, so you can be observing people at least out to two years. but for now, we know it's at least six months, and likely much longer than that. >> all right. thank you very much. thank you dr. gary gibbons. we haveu more viewer questions that will be answers pie your experts in this special reedt reedout virtual town hall next. do get go anywhere. hall next do get go anywhere

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edition of "the reidout" our virtual town hall, race and coronavirus. dr. anthony fauci is with me. back with me, congresswoman joyce beatty and congresswoman lawrence. this question is from a freshman at ucla studying political science. >> i am a freshman in college. as a student i am wondering what you think the best approach is to bring students back into the classroom in a fair and equitable wear. >> this one is for you congresswoman beatty. >> i think it is born for us as we are dealing with the congressional black caucus through our education program to encourage students that you have to come back, but you have to come back when it's same i think we are at that point where many of the universities are bringing students back. so just stay focused. stay at home working. but i think we will bring individuals back. teachers are getting the vaccine. and our numbers hopefully will start going back down but we have to be safe first.

>> good news i think to a lot of students. our next question is from antonio, a flight attendant on the risk essential workers face this the middle this pandemic. >> we are out here on the front lines every day dealing with passengers from all over the u.s. and the world. and my question is, what would you say to the front-line crew members would are risking our lives daily and have been from the very beginning and there is not much press about us and what we do out here. and also asked to be mask police at the same time. >> this one is for you, congresswoman lawrence. >> first thing i want to say is thank you. thank you. we recognize in the congressional black caucus in congress how people like you who every day went to work during this pandemic. i have the fly because i am a member of congress. so i know how valuable you are. i want you to know that you

should be in that first line of getting the vaccine. and we also want you to know that -- and i will use my bully platform to recognize you and continue to ensure that you get all the protections with health care and everything else in our corona relief package. and that i want you to know that we appreciate you. you are our heros. >> well, dr. fauci i am now going to ask you the question that we got more than any other question, and i think you probably get a lot as well. how long do you think that this is going to last, this situation where we have to lock ourselves down, wear masks, do social distancing. how long are we going to be in this, do you think? >> well, it is difficult to predict. but if we keep going in the direction we are going now, with the infection rate going down precipitously and more and more people getting vaccinated i think by the time we get to the fall and the winter we may not be back 100% to where we were

before this started but i think we could be close to that by the ends of this coming year. but it's not going to be next month or the month after. that's for sure. we have to be patient. it's going to get better and better. we also quite frankly have to keep our eye outan these variants, namely the mutations that have occurred that make the virus a little bit different. the best way to protect yourself against that is, one, do the kind of public health measures we talk about all the time -- wearing a mask, physical distancing, and avoiding congregate settings. and two, when vaccine becomes available, please get vaccinated. the more people that get vaccinated, the better off we will be and the quicker we will get back to that normality that you are talking about. >> i want to thank all of you for being here. these were such important questions and all of you were so helpful. i want to thank the congressional black caucus of inspiring this idea of trying to help the community with direct q and a. it's so important.

thank you all for being here, we could do this another hour because i have so many questions. i think the most important thing that came out of this is get vaccinated. get vaccinated. the disease is far more scary than the vaccine. thank you to all of our guests our amazing reidout viewers, the fabulous people in our audience, all of you who submitted great questions and the audience behind me this the zoom. look at them. they look so great. here's my mask, i have got my reidout mask. join us on monday. my special guest will be stacey abrams. good night. y abrams good night tonight on "all in." >> you know, on january the 6th, i objected during the electoral college certification. maybe you heard about it. >>