UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was the first person to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday after receiving a shipment of doses Tuesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, a UCLA emergency medicine physician, was the first person to receive a vaccine at UCLA. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)

UCLA Health received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday and expects to begin vaccinations for some UCLA healthcare workers by Wednesday. UCLA Health is acting as a regional hub to distribute vaccines to other acute-care hospitals and is implementing plans to administer the vaccine, UCLA Health said in an emailed statement Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Health received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday and expects to begin administering the vaccines Wednesday. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)