【明報專訊】THE number of new cases of COVID-19 infection in the pandemic seems to be levelling off, but the peak of severe cases and deaths is yet to come. Healthcare workers in public hospitals are constantly on the run and exhausted. Talking about the situation over the past month, a senior doctor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital had to choke back sobs when describing the plight of his colleagues and the patients, a saddening scene that highlights the helplessness of frontline healthcare workers.