Orange County’s MemorialCare Hospitals Welcome COVID-19 Vaccine

Intensive care unit (ICU) nurse Brenda Acosta was among MemorialCare's first frontline workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Orange County, Calif., during the week ending Dec. 18, 2020. Courtesy of MemorialCare

Vials of the COVID-19 vaccine have begun distribution throughout Orange County’s MemorialCare health care system, giving hope to COVID-19 frontline workers.

“This vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel for all of us,” Dr. Hubert Wong, Orange Coast Medical Center’s first doctor to receive the vaccine, said in a press release. “I can’t wait for everyone to return to a state of normalcy.”