COVID surge exposes long-standing flaws in Australia’s hospital system |
Although it might seem COVID is suddenly everywhere, for doctors and nurses the pressure of working in a pandemic has been constant. Cases are surging again, and hospitals are barely keeping up. As Elias Clure reports, the frontline staff who’ve worked through wave after wave says it’s exposed the cracks in a deeply flawed health system.
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