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Containment, an effort that is starting to bear fruit in France

2020-04-06T19:48:29.745Z


Three weeks after its implementation, the measure gives initial results: the number of new serious cases has been decreasing for three days.


For three weeks France has been confined. A collective effort that seems to be starting to bear fruit: the number of new serious cases has been decreasing for the past three days. In other words, if the curve continues to increase, it does so more slowly. But the situation remains very heterogeneous: the country is cut in two with a western half still spared, while the resuscitation services in the East have almost all exceeded 100% of their capacities before the crisis.

Read also: Renaud Girard: "Is containment a worse remedy than an evil?"

To measure this dynamic, the most important data are new serious cases and admissions to intensive care. All the patients not being diagnosed, impossible to have the precise number of new contaminations. Mortality is also not a good indicator: there is a very large inequality between patients who die quickly and others who can remain in critical condition for several weeks.

" Containment has certainly helped to quickly reduce the number of new infections

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Source: lefigaro

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