Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 9, 2021

Simple stuff: In case you're wondering about how many votes it would take to convict former President DONALD TRUMP of that impeachment charge, if all 50 Senate Democrats voted to convict him, 17 of the Senate Republicans would have to join them to reach that two-thirds vote to convict.

COVID Update: Good news from Pfizer, which said Monday they hope to get more vaccines to the public by cutting the manufacturing time by almost half. The company told USA Today that by ramping up production and being more efficient, they hope to reduce the time it takes to produce a batch of vaccine from 110 days to around 60.

Meanwhile, Chinese ambassador CUI TIANKAI was on CNN over the weekend, and when asked if the Coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, he turned it around by claiming the World Health folks ought to be investigating the US as well. “There’s certainly a need for more tracing to be done all over the world in order to really trace down the origin of the virus” he said. Nice.

Meanwhile, a new study from the folks at Duke University found very little spreading of COVID at summer camps. They looked at data from 54 YMCA camps with over 65-hundred children from March of last year thru August, and found just 10 children and nine workers with confirmed infections. And a further investigation of those 19 infected people --just two of them were suspected to have caught the coronavirus there, while the others were infected outside the camp.

If you're a fan of NBC's Chicago shows --"Chicago Fire," "Chicago P.D." and "Chicago Med"-- tomorrow (Wednesday) will be your evening to celebrate as NBC is holding a "OneChicago YouTube event with cast interviews, a trivia game hosted by Chicago Fire's DAVID EIGENBERG, and afterward all three shows on NBC. The free fun starts at 5 pm (Eastern), on the NBC OneChicago YouTube channel and runs for three hours until the shows begin at 8 pm (Eastern).

Substitution: CHRISTINA MILIAN will be replacing the late NAYA RIVERA in the Starz series, "Step Up." The change comes seven months after Naya's tragic death during a boating trip with her son, JOSEY, who was just four-years-old at the time, on Lake Piru in Ventura County, north-east of Los Angeles.

Christina will be taking over Naya's character, Collette, who she played in the first two seasons of the show, which is about the students and teachers at the High Water Performing Arts School in Atlanta.