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China’s health system strained after zero-COVID ends

China is scrambling to avert a collapse of its public health system after President Xi Jinping abruptly abandoned the country’s strict zero-COVID measures to stamp out the virus. At a public hospital in Shanghai, one doctor named Nora spoke about the situation. Nora says patients fight with doctors to access cough medicines and painkillers that are in short supply, medics are overloaded, and infected staff continue to work because personnel are so scarce.