December 13, 2024

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Health's Like Heaven.

COVID-19 has caused a year of loss, resilience and progress

A University of Florida nursing student gives the first does of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination event held by UF Health and the Alachua County Health Department at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville on Feb. 5.

Anniversaries are frequently times of celebration. Others are more sobering points of reflection, a chance to look back on the journey we’ve been on and to look ahead. Thursday marked a turning point — a full year since our hospital system in Gainesville admitted its first COVID-19 patient.

That moment changed us all.

For the past 12 months, our health care workers, scientists and university faculty and staff have pulled together to teach, advance discovery, heal our patients and support our communities in unprecedented ways. It has been a year of service and impact.

It has been tiring at times, fraught with challenges. But we are tireless in the quest to defeat the virus and improve the lives of those who depend on us most for compassionate care and for answers to what ails them.

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