No more choice.
To avoid a new wave that would be "devastating" for the hospital system, Emmanuel Macron must announce a "total" reconfinement, pleaded Wednesday the president of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF), Frédéric Valletoux.
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"The curfew has not given all the results that could be expected, we must draw conclusions very quickly and take radical measures", he declared on France inter.
The President of the Republic is to speak at 8 p.m. to announce new measures to fight against the "exponential" worsening of the Covid-19 epidemic.
. @ fredvalletoux, president of the Hospital Federation of France: We need confinement "I imagine at least a month, that's what I read from the medical recommendations" # le79inter pic.twitter.com/WRdO6lkeAX
- France Inter (@franceinter) October 28, 2020
"We are entering winter, the fight will be long, the demand from hospitals will be marked, there are other epidemics ... We will not be able to deprogram as we did in the spring", explained Mr. Valletoux , calling for a “total reconfinement” which nevertheless leaves access to nursery and primary schools.
This new wave can be "devastating" for the hospital
"The objective is not to stop social life, it is to curb the number of patients and ensure that the hospital lines hold, which is today damn questioned," he said. he continued.
According to him, this new wave can be "devastating" for the hospital, "left weakened from the first period".
“We don't want to see patient selection images that we can't take because we no longer have the capacity to do so.
But today the hospital remains as fragile as it was in the spring.
There are no more men and women than there were in the spring, there are perhaps even less, ”he insisted.
A failed deconfinement
For the mayor (Agir) of Fontainebleau, it "might have been necessary to take clearer, more drastic measures, which make it possible to stop the epidemic much earlier, that is to say there are about fifteen days ".
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“The government has not taken the measure of what the first wave was.
This is why I am calling for us to prepare for the exit right now - if we are going towards re-containment - to avoid a third wave in January-February which this time would be fatal for the hospital system ” , he added.
