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Covid-19: a deconfinement plan built to avoid a second wave

2020-04-28T21:35:42.417Z


Health first: Prime Minister Edouard Philippe warned Tuesday that without a continuous decline in the epidemic in France, measures


Half of an hour's speech was devoted to health. And the adverbs, chosen this Tuesday April 28 by the Prime Minister, during his address to the deputies, alone demonstrate the immense challenges of post-May 11. "We must therefore gradually, carefully but also resolutely carry out a deconfinement as awaited as risky and feared". The tone is set.

Edouard Philippe lets go a little slack, with a strategy in stages, but evokes conditions, firewalls and a “humility” necessary in such an uncertain period. Can we really speak of a deconfinement plan? Half. Besides, the word is rarely pronounced.

Living with the virus

In the absence of treatments and vaccines against Covid-19, "no plan, no measure, will make it possible to stem the epidemic if the French do not believe it". Edouard Philippe is banking on citizenship. "He calls for awareness because everyone has his life in his hands, that of his family and others," insists Jean Rottner, emergency doctor in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) and president (LR) of the Grand region. Is, in agreement with this speech that he judges "clear". "If this civic and collective responsibility is not understood, we will miss something".

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It's urgent. At the heart of concerns, the impression of a relaxation at the approach of deconfinement. Since April 14, the number of people hospitalized has decreased, it went from 32,000 to less than 27,500 and since April 8, the number of cases in intensive care has decreased from 7,100 to less than 4,400. The decline is slow. Nothing is won. If the figures go up, and if the new contaminations exceed 3000 per day, the date of May 11 will be put into play. "We will have to draw the consequences," warned Edouard Philippe.

Before and after, everyone's responsibility remains the master card to beat the epidemic. The risk of a second wave is taken "very seriously". But the hospital system is wrung out, drugs, overconsumed in intensive care, are lacking ... "I don't want to live what we have lived anymore," says Jean Rottner, still very marked.

Act gradually

The government is banking on milestones with a first on May 7, before deconfinement, and a second on June 2. "It is therefore by climbing three-week marches that we will advance," explained the Prime Minister. "It is a good idea to set milestones, even if it means pushing them aside," emphasizes Sébastien Gallien, infectious disease specialist at Henri-Mondor hospital, in Créteil (Val-de-Marne).

Travel will remain limited. Our radius of one kilometer will extend to 100 km. And the French will not have to leave their department for the Ascension Bridge. Barrier gestures and social distance will remain the watchwords. The tactic will be: “protect, test, isolate”.

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VIDEO. Edouard Philippe: "700,000 virological tests per week from May 11"

Masks in sufficient number, 700,000 screenings each week of symptomatic people with isolation of the sick and contact cases, sought by "brigades". "We are talking about new players who are not yet trained ... This remains to be put in place, I do not think that we are ready to prevent new chains of contamination", fears Anne-Claude Crémieux, professor of infectious diseases at the Saint-Louis hospital in Paris.

Adapt locally

This is one of the big announcements. With a very contrasting map of the Covid-19 epidemic, the situation will therefore be assessed department by department according to three criteria: the weekly number of new cases, the level of tension in the intensive care units and the local capacity to test. If the indicators are good, the department will be in green, if not, it will be in red with a more strict deconfinement.

From this Thursday, April 30, the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon will present each day, in addition to the number of deaths or cures, this new table. "I find this flexible adaptation very positive with regulated epidemiological points and local variation," agrees Anne-Claude Crémieux. “What is interesting is being able to brake or accelerate depending on the location,” continues Jean Rottner. Overall, it loosens the vice, but it does not let go of the clamp. "

Source: leparis

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