Summer and Ryan Erickson pose with their children Bruce, Ryan and Walter at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Twins Miles and Walter were born 11 minutes apart on two different days in 2016 — Miles at 11:58 p.m. on Feb. 28 and Walter at 12:09 a.m. on Feb. 29. (Photo courtesy of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center)

Four years ago, Summer and Ryan Erickson were watching the 2016 Academy Awards from a hospital room at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, just hours before their twin boys were delivered three months premature.

“I remember looking at Leonardo DiCaprio in his tux and all the glitz and glamour of that evening and I was like ‘he is having a very different evening than we are right now’,” Summer Erickson said.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.