It’s been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

What began as a mysterious “flu-like” illness spread rapidly, killing over one million people in the United States and over seven million worldwide. That’s according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

And while half a decade has passed, many frontline workers remember the months of fear and uncertainty as though it was yesterday.

This hour, hospital workers and a grocery store worker reflect on how the pandemic forever changed their jobs, what lessons they continue to carry forward today, and how they resist “collective forgetting” when it feels like the world has moved on.

GUESTS:
Sarah Peltier: Grocery at Stop & Shop in Simsbury, CT
Audrey Silver: Senior Clinical Operations Manager at Hartford Healthcare
Chaplain Rolando Hernandez Lizcano: Chaplain, Hartford Hospital

It&rsquo;s been five years since the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html#:~:text=March%2013%2C%202020,countries%20due%20to%20COVID%2D19.">declared</a> COVID-19 a global pandemic.
What began as a mysterious &ldquo;flu-like&rdquo; illness spread rapidly, killing over one million people in the United States and over seven million worldwide. That&rsquo;s according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_deaths-total">data</a>.
And while half a decade has passed, many frontline workers remember the months of fear and uncertainty as though it was yesterday.
This hour, hospital workers and a grocery store worker reflect on how the pandemic forever changed their jobs, what lessons they continue to carry forward today, and how they resist &ldquo;collective forgetting&rdquo; when it feels like the world has moved on.
GUESTS:
<ul>
<li>Sarah Peltier: Grocery at Stop &amp; Shop in Simsbury, CT</li>
<li>Audrey Silver: Senior Clinical Operations Manager at Hartford Healthcare</li>
<li>Chaplain Rolando Hernandez Lizcano: Chaplain, Hartford Hospital</li>
</ul>

Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Where We Live is a call-in talk show about who we are in Connecticut and our place in the world.

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Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.