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The American healthcare system is not designed to treat millions of people who are victims of an epidemic. The ban on entry into the United States for continental Europeans, announced Wednesday evening, will not change this structural situation, well before the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House. The president's soothing words about the coronavirus for weeks reflect the hope, even the calculation, that the Covid-19 will only be really dangerous for a very small minority of Americans and that it will pass out with the arrival spring temperatures.
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Some figures summarize the magnitude of the challenge facing American medicine, which is essentially private, independent of the federal state, states and local communities: the United States thus has only 2.8 hospital beds per 1000 inhabitants . It is four times less than South Korea or Japan, and more than twice less than in France.
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