THE QUESTION
.
Asked about
BFM TV
, infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital in Paris, warned of the possibility of a “
catastrophic winter
” if barrier gestures were no longer respected.
“
The problem is no longer so much the waves, but the dikes, will the health system be able to cope?
“Asked the doctor, confirming the fear of experts of a new saturation of hospitals even though nearly 76% of French people have received at least one dose of vaccine.
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On Twitter, Antoine Flahault, professor of public health at the University of Geneva and director of the Institute for Global Health, expressed the same fears, explaining that there was still
a
risk of "
a sharp increase in hospitalizations and deaths in France. fifth wave this winter, even with the entire eligible population vaccinated with vaccines 90% effective against severe forms of Covid
”.
With nearly 73% of the population fully vaccinated
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