It's Tuesday, December 15th. I'm Kila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressneck and this is what the day where we are waiting for Trump to say most of the

electors from the Electoral College voted twice or were dead. Yeah, I can't wait to see the new

lawsuits that no one hears as they're moving his shit out of the White House. He's gonna sue 270 to win

the website. I'm realizing that they had no role in this process.

On today's show, the never-ending negotiations over a long overdue relief bill

than some headlines. But first the latest. I would like to thank all the frontline workers

all my colleagues who've been doing a young man's job to fight this pandemic all over the world.

I am hopeful. I feel hopeful today. Relieved. I feel like healing is coming. I hope this

march to begin into the end of a very painful time in our history.

That was Sandra Lindy, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York after getting

the first known vaccination in the U.S. of the newly authorized Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.

There were all kinds of anecdotes like this across the country yesterday from Iowa City to New Orleans

and Columbus. In the beginning of what is going to be a long effort to get us out of the pandemic

came on the same day that the country hit a gutting milestone in total deaths exceeding 300,000

people who have died so far from this virus. Yeah, it is just unfathomable. The New York Times

noted that this is both more than the number of Americans who died in World War II and is roughly

the entire population of a city like Pittsburgh, just an unrelenting brutal brutal year to put behind

us. And the difficult thing we have to contend with even as these vaccinations begin is that the speed

of these deaths is likely to accelerate experts' projects given the continued growth in cases

in current hospitalizations. That's something Alexis Madrigal from COVID tracking project told us

on the show last week as well. Though we have the same tools we've had for months, so it's still

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