Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is quickly vaccinating hundreds of health care workers and patients against COVID-19, and will accelerate the rollout of the Pfizer shot over the next two weeks.
As more and more staffers and patients line up for the vaccine, Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious diseases and public health expert with the hospital said she can scarcely believe it is happening less than a year after the pandemic began.
"It feels pretty incredible. I think the word is giddy. Because the reason it’s giddy is, okay, you thought that the vaccinations were going to be good - but not this good, not these high percentages of efficacy. 94-95%, amazing. So it means that we’re going to get to the end of this pandemic sooner. And it was thrilling to see my colleagues yesterday get injected."
It is a thrill for each worker as they get the notification that it is their turn to get the shot, as my wife, Sara, a UCSF professor and OB/GYN at SF General did.
She is scheduled to get the vaccine Friday morning.
"I’m very excited and I feel hugely grateful to be one of the first people to be able to do this. I just can’t wait for the day that everybody can be vaccinated, because we all deserve it," she said. "I’m excited and of course I’m nervous, we don’t have months and months or years of data on the vaccine so I don’t know what will happen. It looks like it’s incredibly effective."
Getting the shot also means a little extra protection for our entire household, as her work presents one of our family’s biggest risks of exposure.
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