THE QUESTION.
Today as in March, the number of intensive care beds is still the sinews of the epidemic war.
In July, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, announced that at least 12,000 resuscitation beds could be mobilized in the fall, against 5,000 during the "
first wave
".
While France is experiencing a rebound in the Covid-19 epidemic, with an increase in the number of contaminations, hospitalizations and intensive care admissions, doctors denounce the lack of progress in this area.
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This is the case of Prof. Philippe Juvin, who declared on France Info: “
It's still quite incredible that eight months after the crisis, we are in a system where we have not increased the number of intensive care beds or hospitalizations, it has even been reduced.
Paradoxically, in October, we risk having less hospital resources available to Covid patients than in March
”.
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