The double penalty.
With a fever of 39.6°C, Sophie has been bedridden for almost three days.
This quarantine, unvaccinated, suffers as much from the heat wave as from the disease.
Overweight, she is very affected by the rise in mercury: “Being sick with Covid-19 is awful in this heat”.
Since the beginning of the week and for at least ten days, France has had to face its second heat wave of the summer of 2022. At the same time, Covid contaminations are on the rise and the 7th wave of the epidemic is affecting the whole of France, with more than 170,000 cases in less than 24 hours.
For many, testing positive for the disease is even harder to bear in the heat.
“I have a garden but it's too hot to go out.
The worst is in the evening, when the heat drops”, it is sometimes difficult for him to breathe.
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