Kaiser Permanente honors its employees, physicians, and community partners who responded without hesitation to COVID-19, officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020.

Since treating the first patient, Kaiser Permanente has cared for more than 1.9 million COVID-19 patients nationwide and administered 28.5 million vaccines, including to 72% of its members over age 5. In Northern California alone, Kaiser Permanente has performed more than 4.3 million COVID-19 tests.

View a slideshow below of the organization’s response in Northern California to COVID-19 over the past 2 years.

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March 2020: COVID-19 testing began at the Kaiser Permanente Fremont Medical Center on March 11, 2020, the same day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Rosa Aceves, RN, conducts a test.

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