"The pandemic only exposed the vulnerability of our healthcare system…the time to address it is now"

Healthcare leadership in a pandemic: "I was feeling everywhere but nowhere at the same time"

"When we talk about recovery, being subject to that little bit of hate, that can wear away at you"

“If we're responding to a crisis, we're late. People need to get to us before there is a crisis”

COVID-19 leadership: “Gaps that exist in peacetime will be chasms that exist during emergency time”

"There were so many days during the pandemic... that I felt I was just talking to a brick wall"

"We acted as a Band-Aid to our healthcare system in helping our communities protect them from COVID"

"We need some meaningful, trauma-informed help so that we don't pass this on."

“We need to talk about this. We need to learn from this.”

"I used to blame myself." An RPN's experience of long-term care during COVID-19

"What if something happened? What if I brought it home?" A family doctor on work during COVID-19

"No one should see the suffering that people like me saw during the COVID-19 pandemic."

"Everyone was burnt out. People were breaking down."

"Racialized people were disproportionately affected." COVID-19 and critical health care in Ontario

"It is a pandemic. It doesn't care if we have status here." An undocumented PSW on COVID in Canada