February 1, 2021
With the smell of burning sage in the air, the city s first community vaccination site opened today at 9 a.m. in the heart of the Mission District, just off 24th and Mission streets in a rectangular, fenced-in parking lot cleared of cars, planted with four large white tents and staffed with technicians and nurses ready to vaccinate in a community that has had some of the city s highest rates of Covid-19 cases.
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The opening was a triumph of UCSF and the Latino Task Force as well as the Department of Public Health, which will eventually take over the site and open in other impacted communities, first in Bayview and then in other neighborhoods, according to DPH.