Digma is an M.D. candidate at the UC San Diego School of Medicine who lives in Chula Vista. Asmerom is an M.D. candidate at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and M.P.H. candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health who lives in La Jolla. Araneta is a professor of epidemiology and assistant dean of diversity and community partnerships at the UCSD School of Medicine who lives in La Jolla. The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out just as the clock wound down on 2020, a year marked by an unrelenting pandemic that has now stolen more than half a million lives. Thanks to the herculean efforts of health care workers, volunteers and health care organizations around the county,