Figures versus figures.
While the head of government Jean Castex brandished his graphic Thursday evening on the set of "You have the floor" of France 2 to alert on the situation in Marseille, justifying a turn of the sanitary screw, the sulphurous Didier Raoult answers him this Friday morning in an email sent widely to government, medical and local circles.
"The decline continues", writes the microbiologist in this message that Le Parisien was able to consult.
"We went from 120 patients admitted to day hospitals daily on September 4, to an average of 60 for a week (-50%)", he writes, relying on figures from his establishment, the Mediterranean University Hospital Institute (IHU).
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And to add: “We went from 1,100 requests for daily screening among people presenting to the IHU to 800 (-38%).
The percentage of positivity of the screening tests went from 13.9% to 5% of the people tested ”.
The government assures that hospitals are already saturated?
On this point too, the professor disagrees.
“This morning we have 9 beds available for Covid patients”, retorts Raoult.
He concludes: “We have had in the last 24 hours a death linked to Covid at the IHU, in a 77-year-old person whose condition did not allow admission to the intensive care unit.
Covid entry / exit flows have a negative balance of -8 patients.
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This counter-offensive comes a few hours before the arrival, this Friday, in Marseille of Minister of Health Olivier Véran - who has not planned to go through the IHU.
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