“Many times, people have myocarditis and don’t even know it. It goes away and they’re fine,” said Dr. Stuart Berger at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In most of these post-vaccination cases, patients had a full recovery.

During the height of the pandemic, Gates and Prickett, longtime close friends, leaned on each other for support. Before the pandemic, Gates and Prickett would serve on the intensive care unit about one week per month, which changed dramatically amid COVID-19. Their friendship helped them navigate emotionally challenging situations.

Dr. Michelle Prickett, who was on the front lines treating some of the most severely ill COVID-19 patients last year, plans to keep hers on in the clinic and in other areas, like airplanes.

But the organization that reinvigorated Longe-Asque once before would become instrumental in lifting her spirits again during a most trying time. Now, after a double lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine and six months of not being able to talk, Longe-Asque has found her voice once more.

“Swimming is one of the most important life-saving skills that children and adults should master. Whether for fun or for exercise, swimming will serve them well for the rest of their lives, and it’s never too early to start learning,” said Dr. Matthew Davis, chair of medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The recent poll of more than 1,500 Chicago parents found that 46% of their children never had swimming lessons.

Reentering public spaces can put many of us on edge. Filling public spaces with people again — people who have weathered the last year in different ways — may increase the likelihood of incidents of chaos, said Dr. Crystal Clark of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.