Esha Dhawan

Santa Clara County health officer and public health director Sara Cody ’85 was awarded the Stanford public policy program’s Zale Lecture and Award for Public Service on Tuesday. During her acceptance speech, Cody discussed her role at the forefront of the Bay Area’s COVID-19 response, explaining that extending shelter-in-place orders was meant to prioritize equity and stressing the importance of working alongside community leaders.

Non-clinical and non-frontline staff and researchers were able to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Stanford Hospital this weekend due to lack of eligibility verification and after miscommunication that there was an apparent “excess” of vaccines, according to Stanford Medicine affiliates. The misstep is yet another flashpoint in Stanford Medicine’s controversial vaccine rollout.

After passing over front-line residents and fellows for the first wave of COVID-19 vaccinations, Stanford Medicine has created a new allocation method that places more weight on COVID-19 exposure in clinical settings, according to a statement from Stanford Medicine leadership obtained by The Daily. On the morning of Dec.