François Bricaire answers the phone, “upset”.
This Monday morning, the vaccination session he was providing was cut short, for lack of sufficient doses.
However, for the former head of the infectious disease department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, only she can avoid repeated confinements.
Because the professor of medicine repeats it, the measure is far from harmless, for the economy, but also for health!
A third confinement, is it inevitable?
FRANÇOIS BRICAIRE.
I fear it as much as I regret it.
The number of cases is increasing, so are hospital admissions, the threat of variants is becoming clearer… it's not good.
But I am one of those who call for not rushing things, to be guided by the figures and not by emotion.
In short, to go there at the right time.
That is to say when we are sure that the negative effects of confinement are not greater for the population than its advantages.
What effects do you think of?
Three confinements, a year of crisis, it's terrible.
The French are fed up, they are depressed, psych consultations are exploding, young people can no longer take it, economic and cultural players are at a loss.
Shops will never reopen.
Infectious phenomena, I have devoted my career to them, we must do everything to fight against them, but we must also live, go to work, to the theater, to fall in love ...
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Containment is above all a health measure ...
Which will prevail given the current situation which is deteriorating.
When it is announced, it will be necessary to comply, despite the weariness.
The politicians will have an enormous work of explanation and pedagogy.
The Covid, yes, is an emergency, but I do not want us to forget the mental health which is undermined and the other patients, largely forgotten from the first confinement.
In the event of a third, the mobilization to maintain their care and diagnosis must be absolute.
Without this, we will again find ourselves with delays in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
Countries like England have closed their schools.
Should we be inspired by it?
In France, the decision to keep them open is courageous, as the consequences for children can be significant.
Adapting school holidays to the margin as mentioned by Jean-François Delfraissy makes sense, as does the voluntary self-isolation of very old people.
But what will make the most sense will be when we move forward on vaccination.
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More than a million French people are immune ...
There are the figures and the reality on the ground.
This Monday morning, I returned home two hours earlier because there were no more doses at the Hôtel-Dieu, the hospital where I temporarily resumed service for the vaccination campaign.
I am frustrated, saddened.
Our compatriots are positive, they want these injections and it's great.
The industry had boasted of having billions of doses.
But the point is, there is not enough gasoline in the machine.
We are wasting precious time.