Convincing Black Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Local leaders in the Black community are encouraging Black Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine. Freeman Hrabowski, III, Ph.D, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, explains to CBSN why he and his wife entered the Moderna vaccine trial last fall.

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