Investments in community health especially beyond the facilities and formal and informal community engagement are key to respond to COVID now, minimize forthcoming negative health impact due to the disruption of services, and set-up countries for success, including achieving UHC, in the future. Governments at all levels, civil society groups, donors, grassroots organizations, and foreign assistance programs must work together to ensure that COVID-19 only slightly bends the health systems in low- and middle-income countries rather than break them. So how do we do it?