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.
May-8-2020
May 2020: Kaiser Permanente Research Scientist Mylene Volk prepares an instrument in the new 7,700-square-foot COVID-19 testing lab that opened in June 2020 in Berkeley, California. The lab was built in just 60 days at a cost of $14 million and is capable of processing 15,000 tests each day. Since opening, the lab has performed over 4.3 million tests.
