A Covid-19 testing facility in Camden, New Jersey, on December 9. | Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP

Since vaccines don’t guarantee vaccination, one New Jersey city is on a quest to overcome residents’ longstanding distrust.

The need for widespread vaccination against Covid-19 is urgent — experts say about 60 percent of people need to be vaccinated to see the vaccine’s effect on the disease that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Americans. But the country must first surmount a considerable challenge: convincing many everyday Americans, not just skeptics, to get vaccinated.

This challenge will be doubly tough in Black and brown communities, where the coronavirus has disproportionately decimated families and where distrust of government and medical institutions remains high.

In November, Pew found that Black adults are “much less likely to say they would get a