Advantages of Canada's community health centres became apparent during COVID-19 pandemic.

When Adil Butt's body started to ache, he immediately isolated himself in a small bedroom for a month to keep his young family safe from COVID-19.

The 42-year-old lives in Thorncliffe Park, a tightly knit community of apartment buildings in Toronto's east end. Neighbours have been hit hard by the coronavirus.

Butt phoned to inquire about testing at a local pop-up site on Saturday, Dec. 5, got tested and received his positive result the following Monday.

He went above and beyond public health guidelines to avoid passing on the virus to his wife and children, ages 10, seven, six and three."Nobody got it," he said. "It was very hard, especially [for] my small kid."

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the first quarantine measures to control COVID-19. When CBC News canvassed some doctors and scientists across Canada on what's fundamentally changed in health care during the pandemic, what stood out was the need for more collaborative care similar to what Butt received.

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