by rjacksonon May 24, 2021 By Gayle Capozzalo, FACHE, and Susan Turney, MD, FACP, FACPME As vaccine numbers continue to climb and organizations tentatively, optimistically schedule in-person gatherings, we’ve been reflecting on what it means to “go back to normal.” Thus far, going back to normal in America appears to be a resumption of battles that so many of us have been fighting for decades—against racism, sexism and division. Since pandemic restrictions began to ease in early 2021, there have been nearly 4,000 attacks against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, a 73% increase in mass shootings, and we’ve entered a “shecession”—a statistically significant increase in unemployment among women—that is setting the clock back on gender parity in every domain we inhabit.