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Jean-François Delfraissy: "The assessment is likely to be very heavy among the frail and elderly"

2020-03-25T20:18:39.657Z


INTERVIEW - The president of the Scientific Council on Coronavirus appointed by the government, warns of the difficulties encountered by hospital services such as nursing homes.


Jean-François Delfraissy is the president of the Scientific Council on the Covid-19. It has just published a fourth opinion and alerts the government to the difficulties of the healthcare system.

LE FIGARO. - You alert about inventory management. What is the situation?

Jean-François DELFRAISSY. - There is a double message in this alert. Our objective was to remind that the question of stocks is very real, but for the moment no rise in hospital establishments indicates us of rupture. Whether in mask or in other types of equipment. Some hospitals have been able to anticipate the shortage by implementing savings strategies. So we had to reassure the caregivers a little. On the other hand, this problem is very worrying for city medicine and nursing homes.

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That is to say?

In the Ehpad the situation is tense and difficult. But the problem goes far beyond the question of the supply of material. Accessibility to masks and different

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