Despite all the harm it did, COVID-19 also pushed positive change in healthcare from a digital information perspective. 

AIHA argued the ETS does not recognize that all healthcare workers are at risk of inhalation exposure given the strong possibility for pre- or asymptomatic transmission in healthcare settings.

There are any number of reasons why such innovations haven’t been explored as much as other fields: the latent inequality in women’s health is one, but the innate caution about doing research on pregnancy and pregnant patients is another.

When COVID-19 hit, it heightened public awareness of safety protocols, causing healthcare facilities to be more acutely aware of the need to consistently enforce protocols for verifying who was in a building at a given time.