"We're all going to catch the Covid, that's for sure." David Luis did not blink when he said this. As if it was obvious to him, as if he had been prepared for several days. The head of the intensive care unit at Simone-Veil hospital in Beauvais remains calmly Olympian. The heavy threat weighs on his shoulders and those of all his colleagues. He knows it, knows it, but his professionalism comes before his moods.
At the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, healthcare workers know that they will inevitably get this disease. Despite the infinite precautions they take, despite the permanent recommendations, despite the posters posted on the walls and doors to detail the barrier gestures to be performed imperatively.
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For three weeks, they have been in constant contact with the sick. They were among the first affected in France by the epidemic and await with fatality the second wave which is coming.
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