COMMENT | 'Like a kid seeing Santa Claus' – a frontliner reflects on getting vaccinated Modified30 Dec 2020, 2:33 am A - COMMENT | I still remember the day I got the email that said “Sankaran, orientation in the Ricu tomorrow at 7am.” “There we go,” I told my husband, “Covid-19 ICU orientation begins tomorrow.” “Well,” he said. “We knew it was coming. Be careful. Protect yourself. Never let down your guard. You need to think like a soldier going into a warzone.” “I know,” I replied. “Except this time the enemy is invisible.” I am an anesthesiologist in the USA. In early March I was working at a large University Hospital in the Midwest. All elective surgeries were cancelled, and we were being redeployed to areas that needed our expertise. Covid-19 was exploding in the communities around us, especially in the surrounding cities.