Of the many ways our healthcare system is still feeling the effects of COVID, the loss of trust in healthcare, public health, and scientific leaders looms as a systemic threat undermining the entire system. After an initial surge in support for scientists and healthcare workers in the early days of the pandemic, dissatisfaction with lockdown policies metastasized into a general mistrust of healthcare and public health authorities, a growing skepticism toward vaccines, and a burgeoning interest in alternative medicines. Good-faith concerns around the profit motives and quality of healthcare services have been coopted by a movement to discredit the authority of the scientific community altogether. Medical mistrust has also become a partisan issue—Democratic voters continue to trust scientists and public health officials (although the latter less than they used to), while Republican voters now place greater faith in healthcare leaders in the Trump administration, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Even though most healthcare practitioners are not responsible for this loss of trust, they serve on the frontlines of the effort to rebuild it.