Coronavirus vaccine trials aim to include the black and Hispanic communities

But with the first massive coronavirus vaccine trial in people set to start Monday, Newells finds himself in an unfamiliar place: on the fence about what to tell his colleagues, his community, his cousins. Biomedical research, Newells knows, is a long and painstaking process — and he is concerned about a vaccine campaign that seems so narrowly focused on speed.

“What are we doing that we haven’t done before? I haven’t got good enough answers for me to tell my community, ‘This is…