By multiple measures, COVID-19 has challenged healthcare providers more than any other public health crisis since the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the coronavirus pandemic enters its second year, many health systems, hospitals, and physician practices remain in crisis mode. A pair of physician leaders at Cincinnati-based UC Health recently spoke with HealthLeaders to discuss how the health system has grappled with COVID-19.

Surveys of more than 2,000 people in May and October 2020 show about a 10% drop in trust of the CDC over that period, with the overall population-level trust in the agency falling to the same lower level of trust long held by Black Americans about the agency.