News10 [dot] com is reporting 80 percent of Albany Med hospital staff said in response to a survey, that they will take the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Dr. Ferdinand J. Venditti, Albany Medical Center Executive Vice President for System Care Delivery and Hospital General Director. Venditti said the hospital will not make the vaccine mandatory, but the survey showed encouraging numbers. He shares their confidence in the vaccine. “I read the 53-page document that the FDA put together about the Pfizer vaccine, and I’m comfortable taking it,” Venditti said at a press conference December 10, “I’m comfortable with my wife taking it, [and] my kids taking it.” Hospitals make the decision about which members of their staff will be prioritized, based on potential exposure to the virus. The emergency department, for example, is high priority at Albany Med. Read more at News10 [dot] com.