COVID-19 pandemic was like the Wild West. As someone who was in the thick of it, I can confirm it really was. I have worked in health care for more than 30 years and seen the system go through many evolutions, but I have never seen the kind of panic around supplies that occurred last spring.I was new to UHN.
I had been here just a matter of weeks when it all began. Each day, we would look at the Johns Hopkins University world map of COVID cases and see them spreading across the planet. “I wonder if it will come here?” I asked.Looking back more than a year, that seems like an odd question.
But, at the time, a pandemic seemed inconceivable. We had been through West Nile, H1N1, Zika and Ebola. Each time, we were able to prepare and protect.