Every single day, Dr. Scott Levy, Doylestown Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, bears firsthand witness to the enormous toll the pandemic is taking on his in-house colleagues. His advice to alleviate their physical, emotional, professional, and personal loads is succinct: Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. And significantly reduce your risk of joining the legions of patients already crowding the facility.

And for members of the public who are admitted as patients, he asks a simple favor:

“Appreciate that these healthcare workers are working day after day, week after week, overtime, no days off, no chance to get away. [They are covering] not only the patients they normally would but also picking up the slack of colleagues out with the condition as well.”