Inside the ER in the second wave

Frontline health care workers — doctors, nurses, health care professionals — continue to be heroes in this pandemic. They are constant soldiers in the grinding and seemingly relentless war against COVID-19, which in the second wave.

But amidst the fight, there are great achievements: better public health practices, a health care system that has not broken, of vaccine clinical trials that will (hopefully) lead to distribution in 2021. What does COVID look like on the heath care frontlines, nine months later? And what does the public need to know now, as hope abounds for a pandemic endgame?

“This Matters” heads back to the ER with Dr. David Carr, an emergency room physician in Toronto, to share the experiences of frontline health care workers, the health care lessons that have been learned, and what his best day of the pandemic means for everyone else.

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