The DO

How has the COVID pandemic changed health care?

By The DO Staff

09.09.22

The past two years have felt like a fever dream. Only eight months ago, while I was a fourth-year medical student on an infectious disease rotation, the Omicron variant of COVID was raging throughout the United States. I remember feeling dejected at the time, as if there was no end in sight. Shockingly, just over a month later, mask mandates were lifted across the country and COVID seemingly disappeared from the media, despite another surge of cases this summer. As quickly as life had stopped in March of 2020, life seemed to re-emerge this year.