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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York. Pfizer said Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine, starting the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month and eventually an end to the pandemic -- but not until after a long, hard winter. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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Black Americans Have Reasons To Distrust The New COVID Vaccine

A new Kaiser study found that 35% of Black Americans were either ambivalent or uninterested in getting the new emergency COVID-19 vaccine.

Reset unpacks the deep history of distrust with a community-based health care official and a historian whose latest piece explores the issue.

GUESTS: Donna Thompson, CEO of ACCESS Community Health Network

Dan Royles, assistant professor of history at Florida International University; author of "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS”

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