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Courtesy: Shiraaz Mohamed/AP (CNN) Patients are crammed into every corner of the hospital s emergency room ward. They lie on beds and gurneys, or sit slumped in wheelchairs. Many suck on oxygen, but nobody talks. Some die while waiting for a bed. On the worst nights in Johannesburg, currently in the grips of a terrible wave of infections, medics at one hospital must turn away ambulances carrying Covid-19 patients. It may be a diversion order more common to mass casualty events, but 16 months into the pandemic here, COVID-19 is a mass casualty event. It s devastating, it s soul destroying. We are trained to save lives, but you revert to that wartime mentality. You revert to becoming numbed, you revert to becoming blunted, said a senior doctor at a major public hospital in South Africa s largest city.

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