"While hospitals are filling up, we are still wondering whether we wait before going to be vaccinated?
», Criticized Friday, August 13 Olivier Véran.
During a trip to Martinique, which is undergoing a health crisis "
without any measure
", the Minister of Health has toughened his tone in the face of the reluctant to vaccination, who plan to gather for a fifth Saturday demonstration on August 14 .
While 9,465 people are currently hospitalized, including 1,800 in intensive care, the minister urged the French to go to vaccination centers, the only solution to prevent the stretchers from filling up with unimmunized patients.
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Evolution of the incidence rate, of people hospitalized and in intensive care - August 13, 2021 CovidTracker
An observation shared by the Drees, statistical tool of the Ministry of Health in its latest report published Friday, August 13. "
85% of critical care admissions and 79% of conventional hospital admissions are unvaccinated people,
" she recalls. A figure equivalent to that communicated a week earlier. Fully vaccinated patients, who have therefore received two doses or only one after being infected with Covid-19, represent 10% of intensive care beds and 14% in the Covid sector. If the vaccines are not a miracle solution, they remain very largely effective on the severe forms. Driven by the spread of the delta variant, hospitalizations increased by 28% in three weeks, 52% in intensive care. "
The unvaccinated people carrying the bulk of the increase on the tests as on the hospitalizations
”, analyzes the Drees.
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Also influences contamination
In its latest publication, the Dress also shows that vaccines have an influence on contamination. Indeed, on the tests carried out between July 26 and August 1, the number of positives was more important in the unvaccinated. Reported to 100,000 inhabitants, 345 positive cases were not immunized against 45 for those who had completed a complete vaccination schedule. “
For a comparable population size, the rate of positive RT-PCR tests is therefore almost 8 times lower for people who are fully vaccinated.
"
The statistical agency also reveals that four regions, in addition to the Overseas Territories which is undergoing
"a very degraded situation"
, see the highest inflows of unvaccinated persons: Corsica, Occitania, Provence-Alpes- Côtes-d'Azur and Ile-de-France.
Except the last one, all were forced to launch the white plan to cope with the massive influx of patients.
The incidence rate is also high, between 192 for Ile-de-France and 588 in PACA.
Incidence rate in France - August 13, 2021 CovidTracker
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