Surges in COVID-19 activity, primarily in Europe and the Americas, are pushing health workers and health systems to their breaking points, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today, as he urged governments to do more to reduce the pressure.'Impossible choices' by frontline workersAt a media briefing, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the agency is extremely concerned about the current surges and pointed out that healthcare workers on the frontlines have been stretched for months and are exhausted.
He warned that countries letting the virus run unchecked are playing with fire, creating needless deaths and suffering, putting more people to risk for long-term complications, and overburdening