Health system collapsed as virus surges in Amazon city 00:52
Manaus (CNN)It s waiting hours in line to buy an oxygen tank only to find there s none left. For some, it s rushing from hospital to hospital with a sick spouse or parent only to find there are no beds available. For others, it s waiting outside of hospitals for news of a loved one only to hear they could not be saved.
For the medical workers, it s frantic 36-hour shifts. For the gravediggers, it s moving the tons of dirt required to create 20,000 more graves.
For the dead, it s the vertical burial, with bodies stacked atop each other in the increasingly crowded cemeteries of Manaus, Brazil.