Dr. Payal Patel Credit Michigan Medicine / uofmhealth.org Dr. Payal Patel says there have been a lot of lessons learned over the year-long pandemic. She says it has shown it is never good to underestimate how importance of public health or to underfund the system. She says infectious disease medical professionals think this could happen again, that it's inevitable, and we need to be better prepared for the next time. Dr. Patel says it would be naive to think the end of the pandemic is here but adds she was encouraged by the relatively fast rollout of three vaccines and says, "We are making headway to getting more and more people vaccinated, which will help bring an end to the pandemic."