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Dr. Lisa Hernandez discusses vaccine distribution in Berkeley during a virtual town hall on Jan. 4, 2021. The Berkeley Public Health Department has vaccinated nearly 500 frontline healthcare workers since the COVID-19 vaccine was approved in December, and hundreds more doses are in the process of being distributed at local hospitals and senior care facilities. The city has received 1,100 doses of the Moderna vaccine to date in addition to the 975 Pfizer doses Alta Bates received in December, according to Lisa Warhuus, director of the health, housing and community services (HHCS) department. S...

Vic Hsieh, an emergency department technician, gets vaccinated on Dec. 19 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Photo: ABSMC Doctors, nurses and technicians who work in the Emergency Department at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley were among the first medical professionals in the city to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on Saturday. Alameda County and Berkeley got the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, and the medical center started vaccinating a few medical professionals on Saturday with plans to ramp up clinics at all three ABSMC campuses starting Monday. That’s Alta Bates, the Herrick ca...

Alta Bates Hospital workers in Berkeley will begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine Saturday Update, 4:44 p.m.: Alta Bates received the shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines Friday and will begin vaccinating its workers on Saturday, Sutter spokesperson Monique Binkley Smith confirmed. Original story: Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the week, a few days after several Bay Area hospitals started inoculating essential workers. The vaccine was approved but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11 and it almost immediately shipments began goi...

The city of Berkeley and Alameda County are responding with full support of the vaccination rollout under California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “Vaccinate All 58” campaign. Berkeley will receive 975 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, according to city spokesperson Matthai Chakko. The city arranged for it to be delivered to the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, part of the Sutter Health network, Chakko added. “Hope is on the horizon as we now have a path forward to end this pandemic through mass inoculation,” said Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín in an email. “The State’s ‘Vaccina...

As Berkeley awaits shipments of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, frontline healthcare workers at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center will be among the first to be vaccinated. Alameda County expects to receive 12,675 doses of the vaccine as early as Tuesday, according to an Alameda County press release. Berkeley is allocated 975 doses, all of which will be directed to hospital workers including those at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, a hospital part of the Sutter Health network. Sutter Health Vice President of Pharmacy Ryan Stice said in a press conference that the Sutter Health system is excited ...