Quality of care should be a core consideration in health systems recovery from COVID-19

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has shocked health systems globally, overwhelming rich and poor countries and highlighting both the need for and risks to quality care. Massive and persistent problems have been encountered in providing public health interventions as well as acute and chronic care for COVID-19 and in maintaining reliable provision of essential health services, already daunting for much of the world in so-called ordinary times.