The second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic that we are facing has been responsible since the beginning of August for a slow but continuous increase in conventional hospitalizations and intensive care admissions in Marseille university hospitals.
A third of the seriously ill are between 40 and 65 years old.
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The role of a university hospital center, a benchmark establishment for the department and the region, is not to be
"alarmist"
or to comment, but to treat patients, to calmly plan a response adapted to the health needs of the population of the department and the region faced with this second wave.
The daily fluctuations in the figures and curves of the epidemic are widely commented on here and there, but we who are daily, 24 hours a day, in the field, in contact with patients, cannot relax our vigilance, when the curve bed occupancy has been rising for more than five weeks.
The AP-HM infectious diseases pole,
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