Choose the most appropriate connector to join the sentences:

"The first wave of the pandemic throughout the world revealed the vulnerabilities in the global healthcare system, ___ hospitals have been swamped for nearly a year, and no attempts have been made to replenish medical oxygen supplies."

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Choose the most appropriate connector to join the sentences:

"The first wave of the pandemic throughout the world revealed the vulnerabilities in the global healthcare system, ___ hospitals have been swamped for nearly a year, and no attempts have been made to replenish medical oxygen supplies."

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**Solution:**

1. Analyze the meaning of the two sentences:
   - The first sentence states that the pandemic revealed vulnerabilities in healthcare.
   - The second sentence states that hospitals have been overwhelmed for nearly a year without replenishing oxygen supplies.

2. The connector must show contrast or contradiction between the two ideas.

3. Evaluate options:
   - **even**: emphasizes something surprising, but does not fit the contrast here.
   - **yet**: means "in spite of that" or "nevertheless," which fits the contrast perfectly.
   - **since**: means "because," which does not fit logically.
   - **then**: indicates sequence, not contrast.
   - **for**: usually means "because" or "during," but is not suitable here.

4. Therefore, **yet** is the most appropriate connector.

**Answer:** yet

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