Updated on December 15, 2020 at 1:45 pm
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Hospitals and health centers in the Bay Area are expecting tens of thousands of doses of a coronavirus vaccine this week.
Health care workers as well as residents and employees at long-term care facilities are the first groups eligible for the vaccinations.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine is underway, with 2.9 million doses expected to go out this week. California is expected to receive 327,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this month.
First Wave of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Arrive in San Francisco
San Francisco Department of Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said the city received 2,000 vessels of the Pfizer vaccine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Monday morning.
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With cameras clicking and Gov. Gavin Newsom standing beside her wearing a surgical mask, intensive care nurse Helen Cordova rolled up the sleeve of her blue scrubs Monday afternoon and became one of the first Californians to get a coronavirus vaccine.
“Protect me,” she said with a laugh, just before nurse Marilyn Lansangan jabbed her right deltoid.
Cheers broke out from the small, masked crowd of doctors, nurses and elected officials before the syringe was even out of Cordova’s arm.
The inoculation in a conference room at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center ushered in a hopeful new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened more than 1.6 million Californians and killed more than 21,000.
San Francisco board rebukes naming hospital for Facebook CEO
By Daniel Montes article
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco supervisors overwhelmingly approved a resolution to condemn the naming of the city s public hospital for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan.
Tuesday s nonbinding resolution approved 10-1 is not a law and does not require the hospital to do anything. But backers say it would send a message to San Francisco that a public hospital should not be named for the head of a social media platform that spreads disinformation.
The resolution, authored by Supervisor Gordon Mar, urges the city to establish clear standards for naming rights for public institutions and properties, reserving those rights only for organizations that align with the city s values.
Doctor at SF General Who Has Treated Scores of Critically Ill COVID Patients Is First in City to Receive Vaccine
After receiving 2,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, SF General became the first hospital in the city to begin administering it Tuesday morning, with one critical-care doctor who has treated the most severely ill COVID patients being the first to receive a dose.
Dr. Antonio Gomez received the vaccine just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, as KPIX and the Examiner report. Gomez serves as medical director of Critical Care Services at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and has served on the faculty at UCSF in the Division of Pulmonary. He said in a faculty interview that he got into pulmonary and critical care because I really enjoyed the weird, very extreme physiology affecting multiple organ systems that occurs in the ICU – much of which often center on the seemingly simple act of air moving in and out of the lungs.
Updated on December 15, 2020 at 11:43 pm
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The first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccinations in the Bay Area were administered at a San Francisco hospital Tuesday morning.
The historic moment at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital came as the region continued to grapple with a surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations.
San Francisco Department of Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said five health care workers two nurses, two doctors and a radiology technician were vaccinated. Dr. Antonio Gomez, a critical care physician who has been treating COVID-19 patients, was the first. The COVID-19 vaccine is in the Bay Area and medical workers are rolling up their sleeves. Jean Elle reports.