PBS NewsHour

December 12, 2020 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Saturday, December 12, distribution of nearly three million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to begin this weekend, inside an effort to encourage communities of color overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and a thawing Arctic becomes the frontier of a new cold war. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

Building trust about the COVID vaccine in Black communities

6m 42s

As COVID-19 vaccines begin to roll out, some Americans remain skeptical about taking these vaccines. For the Black community, historical distrust makes their concerns even greater. Christopher Booker speaks with doctors, scientists and educators about how they are working on building confidence in the vaccines for a community that has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemi

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    The Arctic is warming up at near-record speed, twice as fast as the rest of the planet due to climate change, according to the recently-released Arctic Report Card 2020. Shrinking sea ice opens up the inhospitable far North to more human activity and old Cold War rivalry. Special Correspondent Benedict Moran and video journalist Jorgen Samso report on the ‘new cold war’ from Nunavut, Canada.

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