nash from the university of michigan. bloomberg. ♪ joe biden: the trump administration's plan for vaccines is falling behind. we have only vaccinated a few one million so far. the pace the vaccination program is moving now, it is going to take years -- not months -- to vaccinate the american people. guy: president-elect biden speaking about the pace of the vaccinations in the united states. the u.s. averaging only around 200,000 people a day. let's figure out how we speed that appeared joining us, dr. -- , university of michigan. good morning. president-elect biden thinks we could do better. how do we do better? dr. malani: good morning. becausean exciting time the vaccine is available, but the ramp up as you and president-elect biden noted is slower than expected. i was fortunate to have been vaccinated yesterday and i am hopeful that things will start moving faster. it is important to acknowledge how difficult it is to do mass vaccinations, and acknowledge the resources that are required to do this. states are doing thi

i recall from the university of michigan thanks for that. now the number of deaths linked to cave in 19 in the in the united states is now past 300000 that grim figure was reached on the same day the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history began medical workers were among the 1st to be immunize with the pfizer biotech drugs but health officials still warn it could get much worse before it gets better particle he reports now from washington d.c. . never before has the nation been so caught up in watching a delivery packed up shipped out and flown to its destinations all under the watchful eyes of security usually anonymous workers now celebrated probably very humble. happy to shoot with the even began. these are the 1st coronavirus vaccines from fines or almost 3000000 doses shipped out across the country and it led to very unusual live television it's not often you hear this when anyone gets a shot. what happened in the. state governors from kentucky to colorado new york to louisiana waiting to see them arrive with this you. sta

she's wonderful, the manager here at the university of michigan medical center and she's the one that got the honor of opening this up and putting this away and taking care of this, and this is going to mean so much. about half an hour it's got to sort of, it's so cold, negative 70 degrees celsius, and so it has to sort of get to a point where it can defrost and then human beings can then take it in their arms and you know, we've all had immunizations. you remember when you were a kid. this is not a scary thing. it is something that is going to help stop this, and so many people have lost their lives and so many people have gotten sick, and this is finally a day where we can all smile. anderson? >> it's just incredible to see. sara sidner, thank you very much. >>> coming up next we'll talk about who gets the vaccines first and how they work, plus the former director of the cdc joins us live on a new prediction many americans will have access to the vaccine perhaps by late february. that's surprising. >>> and the electoral college set to begin voting just a short time from now, confirm

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attending the university of michigan, he would become the wolverines most valuable player and entertainfers from the prois. he left for yale in 1935. it was not long before they offered an opening in the law program. jerry form graduated in the top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice. their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. and gerald ford went off to war. for am for two years it took them across the monterey. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that american could bury her head in the sand. >> i always felt that i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> he choose a headquarters, at stake was michigan's fifth district and the future of his party and his country. the red, white, and blue office caught people's attention. he took on the republican establishment. when the votes were counted in november 1948, ford won the first of 13 terms in congress. and that's not all he won that year. betty bloomer warren w

the university of michigan in ann arbor he would eventually become the wolverines most valuable player and entertain office from the pros but he had already decided that play in the courtroom, not the gridiron. in eft ann arbor for yale the fall of 1935. t wasn't long before the faculty offered coach ford an opening in their law program. for the challenge 1941, gerald ford graduated in the top third of his class. >> returning home to grand he opened a law practice with his friend philip -- but plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. >> and gerald ford went off to war. >> for almost two years the aircraft carrier monterey would 40,000 miles of the pacific. 10 major ence in battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place it in. he had seen too much of the world to believe it would go away or that america could bury in the sand. a i always felt that i was moderate to conservative republican. felt very strongly that the nited states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> ford, the internationalist, -- for his headquarters in his uphill challenge of

attending university of michigan he would eventually become the wolverines most valuable player and entertain authors offers from the pros but he already decided his future lay in the courtroom not the gridiron. he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935 hired to coach boxing and football. it wasn't long before the faculty offered him a opening in the law program. he was ready for the challenge. in 1941 he graduated top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice with his friend. their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. gerald ford, the navy ensign went off to war. from us two years the aircraft carrier monterey would take him across 40,000 miles of the pacific. his experience in 10 major battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place in it. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that america could bury their head in the sand. >> i always felt i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states needed to have a internationalist foreign policy. he chose a q

she checked with the university of michigan and she would know the phrase up off the reservation is nowof hate speech, that university has helpfully created a words matter task force to keep track of which words you're allowed to use, which ones are allowed to keep in your head to, what thoughts are allowed to have. take a look at the list, you will learn that brownbag is no longer acceptable, neither is the phrase low man on the totem pole. curiously the word picnic is also verboten and that's no picnic. mark steyn is keeping track of all the things are not allowed to say, he joins us tonight. picnic, you would think a word that festive and inoffensive would never find its way onto a black list, how? >> this is one of those internet rumors unconnected to anything in reality which purports to argue that picnic is actually some racist term to do with lynching -- it's not, it's been around for the best part of half a millennium, it's french. it it's one of the great universal words because if you go up to a dane or norwegian or a swede or a german or a dutchman or say what's the word in y

attending the university of michigan in ann arbor, he would eventually become the wolverines' most valuabled entertain offers from the pros. but he had already decided that his future lay in the courtroom, not the gridiron. he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935. hired to coach boxing in football, it was not long before the faculty offered coach ford an opening in their law program. he was ready for the challenge, and, in 1941, gerry ford graduated in the top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids, he opened a law practice with his friend philip buchen. but their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. and gerry ford, navy ensign, went off to war. for almost two years, the aircraft carrier monterey would take him across 40,000 miles of the pacific. his experience in 10 major battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place it in. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that america could bury her head in the sand. pres. ford: i always felt that i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that

i'm professor of epidemiology from the university of michigan school of public health. dr. [indiscernible] we cannot hear you. shortly.ll be on we will go to the next one. >> dr. [indiscernible] >> good morning. i am a dean. i am a specialist. >> thank you. cody meisner. dr. meisner. >> thank you. i'm cody meisner. i am a professor of pediatrics in infectious disease in tufts university school of medicine and tufts children's hospital in boston. >> dr. [indiscernible] >> good morning. i am professor of pediatrics at the pediatric -- it's great to be here. >> thank you. dr. [indiscernible] >> good morning. i am the director of clinical innovation at the national center for advancing translational science within the national institute. most of by professional career has been involved in infectious disease, drug and vaccine development. hi i am paul. i am a professor of of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases and the children's hospital of philadelphia and the school of medicine at the university of pennsylvania. >> good morning. i'm paula. i lead clinical global

full earl from university of michigan, said the longer way around is a shorter root to effectively reach the goal. instead of an eua she was going to control access through a phase three study. who decides if i'm at risk and eligible to be first in line. california's expecting enough to vaccinate about a million people this month. broken down by priorities and tiers. top of the lirks health care workers, most at risk and residents of nursing homes and similar settings. he warns the logistics of distribution will be complicated. >> there's room for speed bumps and politics and contentiousness. >> two more questions. when will last quarter get the vaccine. when will kids get it? there are three tiers of priority. all in health care. police not included. neither are other essential workers. as for kids, the vaccine is for 16 years and older only. full fda approval. here's what we know. in a ten-month period fires reported their vaccine as 95% effective and that the saichlt over a two-month period. they're investigating two cases of reaction to the fightser shot. that concern was raised by t

cnn was there the moment university of michigan medical center staff got the vaccine. a box, filled with dry ice and 390 viles. each vile has 500 dose. once thawed and added with saline. >> the really important thing is that we can now see the horizon. we can see how this is going to end. >> reporter: for michigan medicine to tampa general hospital in florida, something to cheer about finally. after a year of devastating loss, more than 300,000 covid deaths in america. to medical staff at ohio state university. >> 3, 2, 1, vaccinate. >> it's momentous. i feel honored to receive it. humbled to receive. it is a really wonderful day. >> reporter: the complex task of figuring out how to store and ship the vaccine has been underway for months. the vaccine needs to be kept at ultra cold temperatures. ups and fedex are delivering the vaccine nationwide using a complex package called a thermal shippers. after so many months of uncertainty, there's renewed hope this vaccine can start us down what's to be a long road to recovery. >> we are exposed to it eveminu of every day. i c

the university of michigan hospital is preparing to inject its first round of coronavirus vaccines.ere cnn's sara sidner is joining us right now. walk us through exactly what is going on. >> reporter: look, at 8:45 this morning here at the university of michigan medical center, we saw the vials come in, a package come in right on time. now what you are looking at, you are looking at sara, also a great name. she's going back and forth and going through what they call reconstitute the actual inobjection lace. you'll see it there. she is taking very good care to make sure that everything is sanitized, but basically this comes in frozen. as you know, it's like negative 7 degrees celsius. they take it out of dry ice, put it in a super-cold refrigerator. it has to warm up a big before it's mixed in with a bit of saline, and then it's put into the arms of those who are on the front lines. as we understand it, the next five people to get this, the first people here, have been taking care of covid patients. she is going to be mixing these two -- the saline and the actual vaccine together, to

of medicine at the university of michigan on how americans celebrated christmas during the 1918 flu pandemic. and then, a syndicated columnist on politics and the year in review. watching c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern friday morning, and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text and tweets. continuing on with our authors week, we are joined by jim tankersley. he's the author of the book, "the riches of this land, the untold true story of america's middle class." thank you for joining us this week. guest: thank you so much for having me. host: almost anybody, if you tell them the term middle-class, they have their own version of what that looks like. what does the theme of your book reflect? guest: there are a lot of ways you can define the middle-class. for a lot of people you define it by income. how much do you make per year, and does that put you into a certain band of people in the middle of the united states. but i like to define it somewhat differently because to me, the middle-class is all about economic security, about being able

they are one of the first to get it here, at the university of michigan. around the same time that the united states surpassed 300,000 people dead due to covid-19. this really is a bit of light, at the end of a very dark tunnel. this moment could not come soon enough. icu nurse, sandra lindsey, is one of the first people in the united states to get the covid-19 vaccine, outside of a clinical trial. so is emergency-medicine doctor, eve. >> didn't feel any different than receiving any other vaccination that i have received in the past. >> reporter: today, workers loaded boxes of pfizer and biontech's vaccine onto trucks by forklift, for shipping to medical facilities and hospitals around the country. an historic day that arrived in record time. cnn was there the moment university of michigan medical center staff got the vaccine. a box, filled with dry ice and 390 vials. each vial has five doses inside. once thawed and mixed with saline, it was administered to healthcare workers who have exhausted themselves taking care of coronavirus patients, while putting

the busiest period since the pandemic began college sports continue to get hit by covid university of michigan announcing 199 student athletes have now tested positive to date duke's women's basketball canceling the remainder of their season due to health and safety concerns now in the second week of the vaccine rollout dr. hussein sadrzadeh in boston appears to be the first to have a severe reaction to the moderna vaccine, using his own epipen on himself. today he told us he's still experiencing symptoms he believes are linked to the vaccine, a vaccine viewed as armor for medical workers on the front lines facing a new surge after a season of sadness. >> these people are dying alone because they're in a covid unit. no family members, no friends, no husband or wife there they die alone >> and meagan, hospitalizations in l.a. county have more than tripled in the past month. what are hospitals doing to prepare for this potential next surge? >> reporter: well, kate, hospitals like this one had 20 covid patients before thanksgiving now they have 130. so like other medical systems across the county

the downriver set in my district but i also represent one of the muslim proper except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of university of michigan is and many progressives i say the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to represent your district to talk to your gesture to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how institutions talk galilee . i think that's one of the reasons don't jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he turned over to google didn't he talked in simple terms that people could understand and or and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate over and even make it on to capitol hill will they that's a narrow spac

down river sit in my district but i also represent one of the muslim proper except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of the university of michigan is and many progressives i say the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to represent your district to talk to your gesture to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how in titian's talk galilee. i think that's one of the reasons to jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he's out of every google didn't he talk to in simple terms that people could understand and or and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate over and even make it on to capitol hill will they that's a narrow space to

down river sit in my district but i also represent one of the muslim proper except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of the university of michigan is and many progressives i say the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to represent your district to talk to you're just trying to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how institutions talk galilee. i think that's one of the reasons to jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he turned over to google or didn't he talked in simple terms that people could understand and or and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate over and even make it on to capitol hill will that that's a narrow

down reverse in my district but i also represent one of the most liberal or except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of the university of michigan is and many progressives i save the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to represent your district to talk to your gesture to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how intentions talk galilee. i think that's one of the reasons don't jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he's out of every google didn't he talked in simple terms that people could understand and enter and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate over and even make it on to capitol hill will that that's a narrow spa

of vaccine research and development at the weather logics and an adjunct professor at the university of michigan he says a centralized approach is needed for distribution of a vaccine for such a national. pandemic and demick it is very important to have a one body that treat it and deal with it in one way. across the country and not allow it for a governor of the state to deal with it different ways so if you have a centralized operation doesn't promote its operation will be much more efficient in achieving the goals compared to each state will deal it differently and also you know in each state you will have different policies and different priorities you have to have a centralized operation and this is what's happening with the team that was going to his or put together by. president elect by then and giving the priority to experts in the field to public health officials and to institutions like the you know and the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. and the department of health and human services all these together really it's a comprehensive approach to to this problem hamas authorities who control the g

that amount could fill the university of michigan's football stadium, the nation's largest, twice. >>n, if it keeps going, we're not going to have anywhere to put these people. we're just not. >> reporter: meanwhile, as deadline for pfizer vac today's deadline for pfizer vaccine distribution plans, the shipments may not be enough to cover the first in line. wisconsin's governor is worried about vaccine delays after backlogged test and p.p.e. deliveries, writing to health secretary alex azar, "as vaccine distribution gets underway, our state cannot afford to have this pattern of failed promises repeat." and still, americans seem to be taking more risks. last night, at least 150 people, including florida congressman matt gaetz, reportedly gathered for the new york young republicans annual gala. that prompted officials to shut the new jersey venue down. >> it is beyond the pale that anyone would willingly endanger people in another state, never mind their own. >> reporter: leticia lara knows that danger firsthand. she survived covid, but her 18- year-old daughter, who had special needs,

relationship had been a very good well earned call is a political commentator the trip to the university of michigan he says donald trump chose to announce bob's resignation on the day that biden's victory was confirmed by the electoral college. i believe the president asked for the resignation. when to make this announcement and this night when i was slippery in that. he was the official of the polish of this new. presidential always the elite media cycle and i never forgot one. thing last month or so to see what happens. yeah this is something commonly seen with other cabinet members and other social contract when it's rationed like. a monster investigating election fraud and trying to see this play not in the. investigation before the election and. barney got in on the. deputy earlier remains. sir i don't think a lot of promise but you see another acting attorney general in so i would like to rethink. and i really. want to special counsel to investigate. with certain things like that are always to direct this acting attorney general trying to investigate all alleging fraud in the 20 formulation u

here now from aaron cole who's a political commentator and the director of debates at the university of michigan he says that trumpet chose to announce paul's resignation on the day that biden's victory was confirmed by the electoral college. i believe the president asked for the resignation. when to make this announcement and i was slippery. with this. knowledge of this new. presidential always. cycle and never forgot one. thing the last month or so to see what happens. yeah this is something commonly seen with other cabinet members and other social contract in this race and a lot. less monster investigating election fraud. not a plea not in the under investigation or election. we aren't going on. the deputy for the remaining. sir i don't think a lot of promise but you see another a. general insult someone like me. and i really. want to special counsel to investigate. with certain things like that are always to direct this. all a lesson for us in the 24 election is an actual criminal cult has rejected calls to investigate allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in china is changing

the head of the committee is a researcher at the university of michigan, and today he said, quote, i would predict the likelihood of approval is high. but again, we'll all get to see it transparently ourselves. that meeting is tomorrow, starting tomorrow morning. and that meeting does mean that we will likely have a vaccine against coronavirus approved in the united states as of the time i am talking to you tomorrow night. but even still, we will still likely have something on the order of 3,000 more americans dead tomorrow, if tomorrow is anything like today. even in the best-case scenario, it was months and months and months before enough americans are vaccinated to put a dent in the epidemic. i mean, it does give us something to aim for, right? you know, we can now say to ourselves and to each other, it's not forever. you just need to do everything you can to get you and your family through to the vaccine, right? stay safe and stay uninfected for long enough to get you through to the vaccine. the sacrifices that we are making -- economic, social, mental health and every other way -

of the medication. with us now from an album michigan dr ali to me is vice president of vaccine research and development at blue willow biologics so. and an adjunct professor at the university of michigan dr always good to see you 100000000 vaccinations in 100 days now with the logistics involved in that not to mention the fact it has to be kept at such low temperatures do you think that is doable. it's a breach in go to a major achievement which is a great. to hear about this and i think that the president elect the by that is not speaking from vacuum i think that he has been following the field and in discussion with different manufacturers and different organizations and i think if he put the $100000.00 those $1000000.00 there's a target for it is on the days it is possible because it's coming online in next week probably and then and there would be adding a whole lot of those just to the u.s. market so therefore you would expect that they would be that significant that this should in addition to their probably he knows from his advisers would sure are well you know who are really experts in this field they have their connection they know there may be. more manufacturing

cnn was there, the moment university of michigan medical staff got the vaccine. dry ice and 390 viles. each viles have five doses inside. it was administered to healthcare workers who have exhausted themselves taking care of coronavirus patients while putting themselves in danger. >> the really important thing is we can see the horizon. we can see how this is going to end. >> reporter: from michigan medicine to florida, something to cheer about finally. after a year of devastating lost, more than 300,000 covid-19 deaths in america. >> it is momentus, it is a wonderful day. >> reporter: the vaccines is being delivered nationwide using a thermal shifter. there is renewed hope, this vaccine can start us now what to be a long road of recovery. >> we are exposed every minute of everyday. i can tell you how much it means to me. i feel like i won a million dollar lottery getting this vaccine. >> what happens when the vaccine is taken to places don't have that specialized equipment? >>. >> reporter: yeah, there are plenty of places that don't have it. that's why it is pac

he was dean of the university of michigan medical school. he becomes the person in charge of the army medical services. founding editor of the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine. served as a colonel in the army. he had seen a lot of disease and death. and he gets involved leading that division when the worst deadly second wave of the pandemic began in fall 1918. and september 23rd, 1918, he travelled to a team appointed by the army surgeon general. he was devastated by what he saw. this was a little outside of boston. he could not believe what he was seeing. it was far worse than any other communicable disease. he was placed on the cots and others crowd in. the faces soon where a bluish cast, a distressing cough bringing up the bloodstains. in the morning the dead bodies are stacked about the morgue. this is what they were seeing in the bar ricks throughout the fall 1918. because they're bar ricks, as part of the war effort were so connected to the urban spaces and port facilities, it very rapidly got to the investigation. so we need

university of washington. >> i'm -- [ inaudible ] good morning. i'm ab associate professor of microbiology at the university of michigan medical school and a member of the african studies center in the international institute and i'm a neurologist by training. >> good morning. >> wait -- good morning i'm at the university of arkansas. good morning. i'm -- [ inaudible ] >> that's one point. >> good morning. i'm mark. the professor of pediatrics at the university of california san diego. >> at centers for disease control and prevention. >> thank you. >> at boston children hospital and professor at harvard medical school. >> great. university of iowa and pediatric infectious diseases and a long-term coronavirusologist. sorry for the technical difficulties. i'm chief medical officer at the center for immunization and respiratory diseases. thank you for tuning in now. the -- and by -- thank you very much. >> thank you for taking your time out of this busy schedule. presented by pfizer and the fda today to support the determination. [ inaudible ] 1 162nd meeting. under the authority of the -- >> the acting morning chair for the meeting. today i'll -- --

howard markel of the university of michigan center for the history of medicine. happy holidays. guest: happy holidays to you and everyone out there. thank you. host: we continue our conversation with you on this christmas morning and how you are celebrating this year and how the pandemic has affected your plans. (202) 748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 mountain and pacific. send us a text, (202) 748-8003. a couple of those. this from fred in panama city. "happy birthday to my wife. it is her birthday. we self-isolate to protect all of us." "i cannot think of a better christmas gift than donald trump being removed from the white house. there is a santa." " we are not doing anything special, just practicing basic social distancing. if president trump would've promoted social distancing and wearing a mask instead of calling it a hoax, the united states would be on a better position on this christmas morning. mike in orlando." carol in panama city, florida "no family get-togethers. surely people can put it all a year. me and i hope to others. merry chris

one of the biggest rivalries in all of college sports according to statement from university of michigan are cancelling sunday's game at ohio state university because of increasing number of covid cases and student athletes in quarantine on the michigan side. game off. >>> in florida, there's new video of a dramatic police raid at the home of this covid data scientist who had been fired. she says she's being targeted by the governor. >> police, come down now. come down the stairs. >> i have children. what are you doing, my children! i felt like i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. as a little kid i knew that i wanted to work with computers. ♪ so when i heard about the applied digital skills courses, that definitely appealed to me. you're learning how to create spreadsheets, documents, forms and surveys. i'm thinking i can become more marketable. i got to about the third course and i'm like, you know, i probably could do this for a living. you don't need to be a computer expert to be great at this. these are skills lots and lots of people can learn. ♪ i feel hopeful about th

howard markel of the university of michigan center for the history of medicine. happy holidays.st: happy holidays to you and everyone out there. thank you. host: we continue our conversation with you on this christmas morning and how you are celebrating this year and how the pandemic has affected your plans. (202) 748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001 mountain and pacific. send us a text, (202) 748-8003. a couple of those. this from fred in panama city. "happy birthday to my wife. it is her birthday. we self-isolate to protect all of us." "i cannot think of a better christmas gift than donald trump being removed from the white house. there is a santa." " we are not doing anything special, just practicing basic social distancing. if president trump would've promoted social distancing and wearing a mask instead of calling it a hoax, the united states would be on a better position on this christmas morning. mike in orlando." carol in panama city, florida "no family get-togethers. surely people can put it all a year. me and i hope to others. merry christmas

down river set in my district but i also represent one of the most liberal or except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of the university of michigan is and many progressives i save the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to represent your district to talk to your gesture to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how intentions talk our legal. i think that's one of the reasons to jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he turned it over to google didn't he talk to in simple terms that people could understand and enter and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate or won't even make it on to capitol hill will vote that's a narrow

university of michigan consumer sentiment coming out at 12:00 p.m. national institute of health director anthony county on bloomberg tv. perhaps he will tell us about his -- anthony fauci on bloomberg tv. perhaps he will tell us about his vaccination. the story really is president trump putting the kibosh on the idea of easy passage of this bill, that he is willing to to preview -- willing to torpedo members of his own party. tom: it is overwhelmed by the history of the moment. kevin cirilli, our chief washington correspondent, joins us this morning. i've got to drive forward to this crazy day and a new washington. what will you be watching today after the president's speech last night? kevin: republicans, and president trump, in his deliverance of his message with increasing the stimulus check to $2000, got immediate applause from democrats, including congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, who said they will introduce enema meant immediately to replace any references -- introduce an amendment immediately to replace any references to the check to $20

epidemiologist from university of michigan. she certainly would be a good pick. out members of the house, you have people like congresswom congresswoman barbara lee and karen bass who would make good fits into the cabinet, but there are other people not necessarily in the congress at this moment who would be good. and if they want to find those folks, they're out there. not too far to go. >> you did give me a couple. >> i hesitate to start naming these people. it is a difficult challenge but one that can be met. not hard to do. brookings institute just wrote an article today and give very good recommendations about how this administration can ensure diversity within their cabinet. but once you get the female type diversity, you have to go a little deeper and make sure that you are having people from diverse life experiences and not just people from wall street, not just people from ivy league institutions, but people who have lived the type of life where they can bring that experience, people from labor, for example. those types of people should be considered as w

university of michigan announcing 199 student athletes have now tested positive to date. duke's women's basketball canceling the remainder of their season due to health and safety concerns. now in the second week of the vaccine rollout a doctor in new york had a severe allergy. he's still experiencing symptoms he believes are linged to the vaccine, a vaccine viewed as armor facing a new surge after a season of sadness. >> these people are dying alone because they're in a covid unit. no family members. no friends. no husband or wife there. they die alone. >> that was megan fitzgerald reporting. >>> a live look at sfo. cloudy skies clear on the car mack. a new rule starts tomorrow. all passengers flying from the united kingdom to the u.s. must test negative no more than three days before they leave and show proof. this order comes from president trump after a new variant is spreading throughout the uk. >>> and the jury is still out, the word from experts aiming to answer the big question about when we will reach herd immunity. it was estimated it would require vaccinating 60

now, if she checked with university of michigan, speech codes there, she would know the phrase off theon is now a form of hate speech. that university has hopefully created a words matter task force to keep track of which words you are allowed to use, which ones are allowed to keep in your head, what thoughts are allowed to have. take a look at the list. you'll a learn that "brownbag" s no longer acceptable. neither is the phrase "low man on the totem pole." there are a lot of words like that. o curiously, the word picnic is also -- that's no picnic. mark steyn is keeping track of all the things are not allowed to say and thinking through why. he joins us tonight. now, picnic. you wouldn't think a word that festive and inoffensive would never find its way onto a black list. how? did this happen? >> this is one of those kind of internet rumors unconnected to anything in reality, which purports to argue that picnic is actually some racist term to do with lynchings. if not, it's been around the best part of half a millennium. it's french. and it's actually one of the great universal words

of midwestern michigan figure. one of the books is called assassination of a michigan king, by university of michigan press.usually my brain works really slowly, but i noticed that strang was a lightning rod for the weird religious enthusiasms and political enthusiasms and just a strange power of the antebellum era, which is a very unstable era. and i slowly came to see the antebellum area as comparable to our own. trump is not in the book and there is no mention of 2020 in the book, but people are reading it in a certain way as an allegory for our own times. that's not something -- amy, you would slap me if i said these two periods are alike. i know it's a big mistake historically and rationally. but i do think we can learn from different periods. i am all bought into the idea of the liberal arts, letting us see our own period through the past. so the book was a blast to right in that way, and i think writing in the trump era, which is what i did, i started about the time of trump's campaign and the book took me five years to write or something. i don't think it would have been the same book if i had writt

coronavirus vaccine arriving. [ applause ] such a wonderful sound to hear, that's at the university of michigane. could you see the u.p.s. deliveryperson leaving the box of vaccine there and getting a round of applause, as she walked out. what a moment to be witnessing and we'll be following this all day long as those boxes get unpacked and the shots get administered. here to discuss now how the health care facilities are rolling out the vaccine is dr. nicholas gilpin, the director of infection prevention and epidemiology at beaumont health and you will be the first person at your hospital to get the pfizer vaccine today. when? when today? >> great question. still working out the logistics. i'm expecting to hopefully get it sometime this afternoon. >> how did you end up first in line and why? >> well, it's a great question. i think i kind of live in this sort of hybrid world where part of my job is i'm an infeckness disease doctor and taking care of a lot of covid patients so i have a front line caregiver role but more important than that, to our health care providers, i've been very much invol

public health services and a professor from the university of michigan. we'll hear about their concerns. >> that will be interesting, kris. we want to know why they felt that way. thank you. some people are apprehensive about the vaccine but not dr. patel, part of the abc 7 vaccine team. he spoke live with larry beil at 4:00. >> would you take the vaccine as a front line worker? >> absolutely, larry. i'll take it on live television. it's approved. my colleagues are taking it. we'll have the nation's experts recommending it. when we get to that point, absolutely. >> now, we're dedicating next week to bring you in depth coverage of the vaccine. our team of reporters and medical experts including dr. patel you heard from will answer the big questions from safety to distribution to side effects and much more and monday night at 10:00 a special edition of " "20/20, the shot race for the vaccine" will cover the safety, timing and access to the vaccine. download our abc 7 news app as well and enable the push alerts whenever you need it, we'll update you right the

cnn was there the moment university of michigan medical center staff got the vaccine.x filled with dry ice and 390 vials. each vial has five doses inside. once thawed and mixed with saline, it was administered to health care workers who have exhausted themselves taking care of coronavirus patients while putting themselves in danger. >> the really important thing is we can see the horizon, how this will end. >> reporter: from michigan medicine to tampa general hospital in florida, something to cheer about, finally, after a year of devastating loss, more than 300,000 covid deaths in america. to medical staff at ohio state university. >> 3, 2, 1, vaccinate! >> it's momentous. i feel honored, humbled to receive it. it's a really wonderful day. >> reporter: the complex task of figuring out how to store and ship the vaccine has been worked on for months. the vaccine needs to be kept at ultra cold temperatures. ups and fed ex are helping deliver the vaccination wide using a design by pfizer called a thermal shipper. now after so many months of uncertainty, there is renewed ho

fuller from the university of michigan had this to say. i've learned in research studies over and over again and want us to apply wisdom. the longer way around is the shorter route to effectively reach the goal. instead of an eua, she was in favor of expanding access in a continuing phase three study. this is probably the most common question, who decides if i'm at risk and eligible to be first in line to get the vaccine. the first shipment will be limited. california is expecting enough to vaccinate 1 million people this month. that's why the governor released extensive guidelines on distribution. broken down by priorities and tiers. top of the list, health care workers most at risk and residents of nursing homes in similar settings. the logistics of distribution will be complicated. >> there is room for screwups and speed bumps so it will be interesting. >> reporter:. >> two more questions that get into the nitty gritty. what will law enforcement get the vaccine? when will kids get it? there are three tiers of priority all in health care.

confidence compared with november however it experienced a bounce according to data from the university of michigan. let's get to the bottom of this with our financial correspondent in new york quarter explain to us why confidence can be rising at this time. yeah i mean it has been a slippery slope into pretty an even recovery what might have felt consumer confidence is all the news about the vix scenes that we've got maybe also all those headlines all for records on the stock markets in recent weeks might also have helped to increase confidence up but then if we do see what happens with the consumer confidence figures they are not really bipartisan so after the election said democrats are definitely felt much better than republicans did. that's interesting so republicans feeling more downbeat democrats feeling more feet are any of them right. well there might be overly optimistic also if you look at the stock market by the way and you see all those funny constructions that they're building here to avoid indoor dining by the way the governor of new york today actually announced that indoor dining w