Understanding the plight of our health care workers and professionals

It has been five months since a state of public health emergency was declared, with the Covid-19 code alert system being raised to Code Red sublevel 2. Until now, the intricacies of the pandemic remain to be known as it turns out to be more puzzling than ever.

Nonetheless, what has become certain is that the virus knows no borders and approximation. It affects everyone irrespective of age, gender, race and status. More than that, it puts an enormous strain on those disproportionately affected by it, notably migrants, detained individuals, disabled persons, women, children, LGBTI peoples, older persons, Indigenous Peoples, and health care workers and professionals (HCWPs). As the United Nations puts it, “[t]he virus does not discriminate, but its impacts do.”