These are the men and women who do the humblest work in hospitals filled with COVID-19 patients. Jesse Gonzalez, environmental services attendant at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, was among the front-line workers there to get a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot this week. The vaccine rollout is a window into the culture and priorities of an organization.”Maria Saravia gets vaccinated at Keck Hospital of USC. Angela Balam, who works for Kaiser Permanente, didn’t tell her four children she was getting vaccinated until the deed was done. This year, Balam was among the first to interact with a COVID-19 patient at the hospital.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 19, 2020 14:02 UTC