60 Minutes
An End in Sight | Justice Defenders | Built by Angels
Season 53, Episode 14 · Aired 2020-12-20
Synopsis
The Pfizer senior vice president who led development of the company's COVID-19 vaccine says beating the virus became personal when she witnessed the death and economic disaster it wreaked near her home in New York City. Kathrin Jansen speaks in her first network television interview and allows 60 Minutes cameras into Pfizer's research labs to tell the story behind its collaboration with the German company BioNTech and how it led to the first emergency use authorization for a vaccine in the U.S. Jansen's interview. The criminal justice system in Kenya is underfunded, overcrowded and decrepit. Over 80% of the inmates have never been represented by a lawyer. As a result, many inmates in the teeming prisons are experiencing some degree of injustice. But some of those prisoners are now earning law degrees and becoming paralegals thanks to Justice Defenders, an organization providing legal education and counsel that often changes lives. Anderson Cooper reports from Kenya.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 53
- S53E01 The Battle for the Ballot | H.R. McMaster | Coach O and the Sideways Season
- S53E02 Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David
- S53E03 Fire! | Talent on the Spectrum | Seinfeld in 2020
- S53E04 Treating COVID-19 Today | The Lincoln Project | Grizzlies
- S53E05 Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight
- S53E06 Election Edition: The Candidates