" Test the first one who has difficulty breathing." The Covid-19 screening strategy in 805 nursing homes in Occitania is now based on this single sentence and concerns residents… as well as caregivers! Launched by the ARS, under the impetus of Pr Hubert Blain and Yves Rolland, geriatricians in the CHUs of Montpellier and Toulouse, this initiative differs from that implemented nationally; which recommends, without further action, screening for the first three suspected cases.
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“It has now been more than ten days since the residents of Ehpad meet anyone other than carers and employees of retirement homes. If one of these residents is diagnosed with Covid +, it is because the disease was imported from the outside, " describes Professor Blain who, in the emergency care, adds " the urgency of finding the "carer zero "In order to break the chain of contamination within the establishment." This screening strategy is modeled on that in effect at the Montpellier University Hospital.
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