point because they're the only ones who have the answers to what we need not politicians not business yaz turning out the gods are not quite so perfect in delivering the confusion laughing about is the right time right now or it did you know what i mean yeah. it was you i think actually laugh every great tragedy and every great piece of literature every movie and during the scariest times as you just explained that's when you start telling jokes to each other because you have to get through it keeps you calm enough that you can and you will get through it. but if you just give in to the fear and you don't laugh about things ever will you you just you know do anything you just shrivel up. helps to laugh now and i mean i remember in a safe i don't remember but like i watched movies a lot and i read the books in the fifty's and sixty's everyone was sort of in love with a white lab coat and glasses and believed in scientific progress and now people get information from huge impacts and don't really trust this idea anymore right i think you're exactly right people were in love with the white c

. >> reporter: yaz min, good morning. we're about to get a first-hand look at the updated 737 max.lines is running a couple max flights to start and ramping up from there. it's after unthinkable tragedies. the faa's administrator promising it's safe and has undergone and us -- an unprecedented level of scrutiny. >> reporter: the first commercial flight in nearly two years. american airlines plans to fly round trips through january 4th before adding more routes. united and southwest plan to relaunch the max early next year. the new flights coming after two fatal crashes claimed 346 lives. the accidents were linked to faulty sensors in software failures that caused the planes to nose dive, ultimately grounding all max flights in march of 2018. now after software upgrades, pilot training and maintenance requirements, the faa has given the green light with the dry run earlier this month. >> we're proud of this airplane. i flew on it last night. my daughter will next week. we're proud of all the work our team has done. >> reporter: ryan tracks the industry and will be on that first new

yaz min, you're at a hospital in rhode island. i have to imagine it's emotional and challenging. they're not going to get this vaccine at the same time. they can't do that. >> reporter: it is incredibly challenging. i think some of the challenges that the medical workers are facing is the fact that there's going to be maybe they're hoping 39,000 doses by the end of the month or 70,000 plus frontline health care workers in the state. all the frontline health care workers are not getting a vaccine in the month of december despite skyrocketing cases. there's 466 hospitalized folks right now. 48 people in the icu. 25 on ventilators. you have two field hospitals in the state with 40 plus patients in the field hospitals as well. they think they're going to have to hope the field hospitals for the next two or three months because of the capacity. it's being pushed to capacity, the health care system. in spite of that, it's a happy day. the next 24 hours or so as we're seeing vaccines administered in the state. and across the country. and they want to make sure the vaccines are distribut

we have a question here from a public health specialist at stanford university named yaz min reyes, interested in how disease transmission mitigation strategies, vary between those doing the trading, such as quarantine and other strategies, that would have been used by the enslaved people. so what did the enslaved people themselves bring to this, versus what the slaves are bringing to this? and there, it's fascinating what you said about these military units, some of these guys must have had their own practices about health, from warfare, but -- so both sides here are contributing to this world of trying to mitigate the disease. talk a bit about that. >> yeah, first of all, i have to say that this yasmin rayes is personal, she's like my sister. >> okay, i didn't know, you got a tough one here from your sister. >> so yeah, long story, many, many years. >> yasmin, to answer your question, what happened here, there is a huge exchange of knowledge and it's going all directions and one of the things that i actually tried to avoid here as well, you have said that from the beginning is to follow this