“According to models from the Institut Pasteur, we expect 1,700 new daily admissions to hospitals by July 18, compared
to around a thousand these days
.
This trajectory brings us closer to the level reached in the spring with the Omicron sub-variant, BA2.
We could even observe a peak higher than that of April”
, fears Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council and researcher affiliated with the Institut Pasteur, in an interview with
the Sunday Journal on
July 10, 2022.
The epidemiologist, however, has noticed in recent days a
“slowdown in the rate of positivity of the tests”
.
But he calls, in anticipation of the risk of the increase in hospital admissions for Covid-19, to strengthen the protection of the most vulnerable people:
“Protecting the most fragile is first of all inviting them, as well as their entourage, to adopt barrier gestures, to wear a mask, to ventilate well and to reduce their contact.
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“
In a personal capacity
”, Arnaud Fontanet said he was in favor,
“in peak times”
, of “the
return of an obligation to put on the mask in the metro or the train.
This is a non-binding gesture, and the obligation sends a simple and strong signal demonstrating an intense circulation of the virus.
»
Thursday evening, on our set, the president of the Orientation Council for the anti-Covid-19 vaccine strategy, Alain Fischer, had issued the same personal opinion.
