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VIDEO. 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 in France: why the toll of this epidemic is so heavy

2021-04-15T14:37:54.612Z


The Covid-19 has already claimed more than 100,000 lives in France since 2020. Since the Spanish flu, never has an epidemic made so many


The milestone is being crossed this week.

Since January 2020, around 100,000 people have died from Covid-19 in France.

A heavy and unprecedented toll for an epidemic in France, since the Spanish flu of 1918. One of the first consequences, noted by demographers: mechanically, life expectancy has fallen in France.

A first since the end of the Second World War.

Men die 6 months earlier on average in France (5 months less for women), ie "a more significant drop than during the heatwave episode of summer 2003 in France," recalls France Meslé, director of the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED).

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How to explain this excess mortality due to an epidemiological peak, when the virus turns out to be less lethal, less formidable than viruses like Ebola?

Alexandre Bleibtreu, infectious disease specialist at the Pitié-Salpétrière hospital, recalls that a virus like Ebola produces very strong and visible symptoms, "which makes it easier to isolate the sick".

Where Covid-19 is more insidious, with asymptomatic cases in particular, or sometimes mild symptoms in some patients ... but which remain just as contagious.

Hence the difficulty in detecting and isolating all affected patients and stemming the epidemic.

The total death toll from Covid-19 is not yet known, as the epidemic continues to wreak havoc.

Other doctors and specialists are already alerting to an excess of indirect mortality to be expected, with patients not or little supported for their pathology, excluding Covid-19.

The League Against Cancer estimates that 5,000 to 8,000 deaths may be indirectly attributed to the coronavirus in the years to come.

Source: leparis

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