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As casualties mounted, “front-line hospitals and triage clinics were throwing whatever they could at the injured soldiers to keep them alive,” says Ezra Barzilay, a physician who heads the Kyiv office of the U.S.

"As a result, this technology could be used in the future to offer virtual triage services in walk-in clinics, pharmacies, and community centers."

At no point did the NHS have to impose a formal ‘national triage’, where someone was refused treatment because they could not get a hospital bed.

"I kept having issues in the pregnancy and triage took ages – they wouldn’t get back until a day later," she said.

Courts have tried to triage the shortage by assigning the court reporters they do have to the most serious cases, such as felony trials.