More than three-quarters of patients admitted in resuscitation since the return are not vaccinated. The reactivations of the white planes multiply.
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The fifth wave of Covid-19 continues its progression in France. If the increase in the incidence rate has been observed for over a month, the pace has accelerated in the last two weeks. The doubling time of cases is now ten days and more than 30,000 new daily cases are detected. If all age classes are achieved, the strongest growth is observed in children under 9 (+ 80%), while the 30-39-year-olds continue to be the age group where the virus circulates The most, with an incidence of 467 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The impact on the hospital are net: Friday, December 3, 11,103 patients with CVIV-19 were hospitalized (an increase of 19% compared to the previous week), including 2,058 in critical care services ( + 26%). “We are in a concern. In ten areas of thirteen, the number of weekly admissions to the hospital is already higher than the peak of the fourth wave,” said Patrick Rolland, public health epidemiologist France, during A press point Friday. Deaths in hospital and EHPAD are also increasing 38% compared to past week.
“This awakens bad memories”
“The number of patients [reached] COVID-19 has returned to the rise, without the date of saturation of hospitals, describes Francis-René Pruvot, at the head of the Conference of Presidents of Presidents. Medical Commissions for the Establishment of University Hospital Centers (CME-CHU). This awakens bad memories, whereas we were already in a concern at the hospital, there is great weariness. “Since September and the exit Fourth epidemic wave, the institutions are far from being able to resume normal activity, affected by a shortage of nurses, in particular due to departures and difficulties of recruitment, but also of doctors, in the first place in the services of emergencies, generating closures nights and weekends.
Sign of the voltage that rises, the white plane reactivations are multiplying, to reorganize in times of crisis, recall caregivers on their leave or to engage deprograms of non-Covid-19 activity. In Rennes, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Lille, Angers, Colmar, Mulhouse, Annecy, Le Mans … “This is not due only to Covid-19, but also with the lack of staff and absenteeism”, describes François-René Pruvot.
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