THE QUESTION.
The fifth wave of Covid-19 will have “
a significant impact
” on health establishments, in the order of “
1,000 to 1,500 hospitalizations per day
”, and this “
for several weeks
”, Jean-François Delfraissy said on Monday, Chairman of the Scientific Council. The hospital, relatively spared for the moment by the epidemic resumption, must therefore expect, according to him, a higher peak than at the end of August (around 900 hospitalizations per day on average weekly) but "
much more limited
" than that of the third wave (more than 2,100 mid-April). Pr. Delfraissy finally added that the caregivers would "go through
this for several weeks
", even announcing "
not easy weeks around Christmas
”.
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That said, healthcare workers are already going through '
not easy
' weeks pretty much every week since the onset of the epidemic crisis - and even before.
Le Figaro
had notably recalled that the emergency resuscitation services of hospitals are saturated almost every year at the time of the seasonal flu, and a few weeks ago, it was bronchiolitis that hovered over the pediatric wards. fear of saturation.
The question that arises more specifically is therefore to know whether, in a hospital context already widely described as tense and while the heads of service frequently denounce the lack of resources, personnel or intensive care beds, the "
fifth wave
" of Covid-19, which is currently affecting France, will significantly worsen hospital pressure by the end of December or early January, and for several weeks in a row.
CHECKS.
Last week, the same Jean-François Delfraissy estimated with cautious optimism that the system of
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