was a part ofhe from breaking work at bell labs. fought at advocated for black stabbed -- blacks to have opportunity in research. juan: dr. pernell, her father was not the only number of your family afflicted by the coronavirus. could you talk about the experiences of other family members and then your decision to participate in the vaccine trial? >> sure. i have been saying clearly it is so important to put a face to this pandemic. so important to put a face to the science. only talk about how coronavirus is disproportionately impacting black and brown lives, i oftentimes point to own story. the week where we buried my father to a virtual ceremony, my sister was confirmed positive for coronavirus. my sister, who is a breast cancer survivor, worked in a central retail industry and likely got exposed on her job. she became sick. she was not hospitalized but was sick at home. we closely monitor her. promised eight or nine months later, my sister still has lingering aftereffects of the infection. she just got up supplemental oxygen. sh

yes if it spent a season sharing a porsche 917 with bell labs and by given the speeds aren't you sometimes scared of your own fearlessness. you know if you're scared you may as well quit racing. was 104 we did you know i guess we probably did 5 races together and we won one of them when we were 2nd a couple of times in june 971 the 2 drivers would be partners for the last time in said to me last week in october that he is if it was dead killed when his formula one car crashed at brands hatch in. we hated it and it put and i must admit i didn't sleep well at nights and i was always desperately nervous the night before a race i mean drivers really were worried i mean you see some drivers faces they were white before the race with anxiety. the previous year belle had shared his ferrari $512.00 cockpit at lamar with swedish driver ronnie pettit song. but he was with me in formula to u.c. as well so i thought i knew him really well better some later joined the lotus team in formula one at the 978 italian grand prix in monza he collided with james front and crashed into the barriers his legs sha

he was a man who defied the jim crow south, ultimately became a research scientist at bell labs and prevailedultiple health conditions and unfortunately this pandemic ended his life. that was fuel to my belly, that and seeing how disproportionately affected black and brown communities have been. all that impressed upon me the need to be part of the solution. this was one direct way, one very specific way i could be part of that solution by volunteering for this trial. >> let's talk about minority communities being disproportionately affected and resistance to the vaccine. those numbers are still lower than the rest of the population and understandably so. what kind of out reach would you like to see in these communities? >> i want to see us amplify the voices of trusted messengers in the communities. cultural competency is mandatory. i like to take it a step forward. social and culture fluency, to be able to have those conversations in communities in an authentic and transparent way by saying i hear your concerns, i hear your concerns you have historically, whether we're talking about to what

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and that love of math and science led him to bell labs but he only could get a job cutting grass.m cutting grass to being a member of technical staff and advocating for black laboratory scientists and engineers to have access to opportunity. and i see myself as living out that mission of science and living out that mission of racial justice and health equity. and that's why i want all america to know that this is a crossroads in our nation. it's an opportunity for us to reckon with our past and to transform and define a new america, a new way forward. we can't get there without having these truthful conversations. >> dr. chris purnell, thank you for sharing from your loss. i hope many people can benefit from this tragedy. thank you so much for being with us. >>> that does it for "andrea mitchell reports." thanks for watching. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" right here on msnbc. in a land not so far away, people are saving hundreds on the most reliable network with xfinity mobile. they can choose from the latest phones or bring their own. and choose the data option that's ri

lab in this compound. it's called the signal institute. and cnn and belling cat have established that it has been involved with researching and developing novichok. in mid august, navalny and his team travelled to siberia. at least five members of the fsb unit make the same journey on different flights. alexei navalny and his colleagues stay at a hotel. we travelled to the siberian city to retrace his steps on the night he was poisoned. >> this is the room that alexei navalny was staying in and it looks like my room here is right next door. >> reporter: according to navalny, he went to bed at around midnight after drinking a cocktail with his team. the toxins unit was not far away. using a ping from a cell phone we've been able to place one of the fsb operatives in this area. just blocks from the hotel on the night of august 19th. the night that the nerve agent, novichok, made its way into room 239. alexei navalny left the hotel early the next morning, boarded the moscow flight feeling fine, three hours later he was close to death. his team collects any evide

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bell n. clearly a very hard—working couple behind this vaccine. i was interested to lead on their wedding day in 2002, according to reports, the pair only briefly left their work at the labe health secretary earlier, matt hancock, saying more information would be coming out today about the approval process for this pfizer/biontech vaccine. so we are going to hear from doctorjean raine, a chief executive of the mhra, the medicines approval organisation, also the chair of the commission on human medicine expert working group, professor muhammad, and the chair of thejoint professor muhammad, and the chair of the joint committee on professor muhammad, and the chair of thejoint committee on vaccinations and immunisation. they will cover this morning's announcement of the approvalfor the this morning's announcement of the approval for the pfizer/biontech, covid—19 vaccine. more about the process for approving it and possibly we don't know for sure yet, more detail on how it will be decided exactly who is going to get this vaccine first. so that is at ten o'clock, coming up live on the bbc news channel. all non—essential shops in england can reopen today, as the national lockdo

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