On Saturday April 4, Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon indicated that there was " a slow decrease in the increase " in the number of ICU patients infected with Covid-19. Overall, the number of patients hospitalized in France continues to increase every day, but this increase is a little slower than before as can be seen on the following two curves:
Covid-19 TV resuscitation and death monitoring
The same goes for the number of people admitted to intensive care.
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As for the curve of cumulative deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, it too seems to mark a slight inflection which still needs to be confirmed in the days to come.
TV patient follow-up
These are the figures that explain why the Director General of Health mentioned " a slow decrease in the increase ", a sort of oxymoron that could be translated by a " slowdown in the dynamics of the epidemic " . This slowdown is most likely a first effect of the containment measures taken almost three weeks ago. Which is " good news for caregivers ", said Jérôme Salomon, before adding: " We are at the beginning of the period when we can assess the impact of confinement (...) we must not relax 'effort '.
