“Until the world is vaccinated, no one is vaccinated,” said NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden. “The virus will continue to spread. This pandemic could go on for another 7 years if we don’t succeed in distributing the vaccine around the world.”
McFadden recently traveled to Copenhagen and Uganda, where she had exclusive access to the international teams working to bring Covid-19 vaccines to some of the most vulnerable—and remote—communities on Earth. “We got to see a small part of a very big puzzle,” McFadden said.
McFadden took two international flights, a soaking boat ride and then a three-hour drive alongside UNICEF teams carrying a small ice chest packed hope—40 vials of vaccine destined for health care workers in the Buvuma Islands of Uganda. It’s the first time a broadcast news crew has seen the global distribution effort first hand, showing viewers of NBC Nightly News and Today exactly how difficult it is, both to access the vaccine and then to get it to remote communities in the world’s poorest countries.
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In Episode 11 of the podcast, I talked to Politico’s Eugene Daniels about race, journalism and covering the Biden-Harris Administration.
“When I go into the White House it’s not lost on me the reason that I’m there is because of the hard work of my family members, the hard work of Black people in general, and the fact that slaves built that building.”
In our conversation, we talked about covering DC, being a Black man and a gay man working the White House beat, and about his experience in local news in Colorado, when a news executive told him his “voice was too Black to be a full time reporter in Colorado Springs.”
Episode 12: Cynthia McFadden, NBC News