Amid another national COVID-19 surge, the arrival of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at UC medical centers signals hope for “the beginning of the end,” said Executive Vice President of UC Health Carrie Byington at a virtual UC Board of Regents meeting Tuesday.
At the UC Board of Regents Health Services Committee meeting, the regents discussed the UC system’s policy for vaccine distribution to its health care workers. According to Byington, the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup, chaired by UC Berkeley School of Public Health professor Arthur Reingold, met Sunday to discuss the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and voted unanimously to move the vaccine forward.