jenn ashton with us now.w you had a history of severe allergic reactions, how are you feeling hours after taking the vaccine? any side affects? >> physically i feel fine. i do have a history of severe allergic reaction to food, i had my epi pen ready and i was in a safe environment and monitored for 30 minutes. my risk of allergic reaction is lower than covid so it was a easy decision. >> there's controversy aren't politicians getting vaccines. walk us through the guidelines on who gets the vaccines first. >> what the cdc said, that 1-a, should go to the long-term care facilities. nursing homes and front line health care workers. then, the cdc just out with recommendations about who goes second, group 1-b, they are suggesting essential is workers and adults 75 years of age and older and essential workers are a big group. people who work in food, agricultural, transportation, first responders, education, and prisons. there have been some small subset of politicians, government officials for whom national secur

. >>> welcome back, jenn ashton is holding a town hall right now with a panel and answering viewer questions along with the experts. right now, they are talking about racial disparity and covid-19. one of the guests is bing chen, founder of gold house. let's listen in. >> in history in medicine, in particular, in american medical history, i'm a jewish woman, and when i heard that, i thought, i, the pfizer vaccine was developed by a german company. the germans were responsible for exterminating 6 million jews in the holocaust. and i -- as the conversation, the dialog that i had with myself. i may have initials after my name, but i still have the same fears, questions, you know, thoughts that any person has. myself dialogue is the following. we can't change the past. we can change what we do today. we can change the future. but, just like it would not be fair for me to hold an entire country of german people responsible for the actions of the nazis in the holocaust, i would hope with every fiber of my being, that the black community does not hold the scientists and researchers today responsibl