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 campus and the Summit Medical Center in Oakland, according to an email sent to staff by Dr. Ursula Boynton, the chief medical executive of ABSMC, which was provided to Berkeleyside.