COVID-19 remains top concern for ICU staff, despite B.C.'s progress tackling pandemic

For 18 months, intensive care unit physician Dr. Steven Reynolds has been consumed by thoughts of COVID-19.

He thinks about the levels of personal protective equipment, the congestion in the ICU and how frontline workers are faring.

“I’m concerned for some of their mental health and I’m concerned for their burnout,” said Reynolds, site medical director at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C.

He’s not the only one.

Amid a steady drop in new cases and a surge in vaccination, there’s a