Hospitals and health systems across the country have been recognizing milestones that didn’t exist two years ago, more than one year since we admitted the first COVID-19 patient. One year since we experienced the first COVID-19 death. One year since we ate lunch with coworkers in a break room.
Hospitals are reaching these milestones at different times because the virus reached us at different times — spreading like a wave before eventually reaching every corner of the globe.
More than one year and three vaccines later, we are beginning to emerge from our collective bunker, take inventory of our surroundings and establish a roadmap for what life looks like in a post-pandemic world.
