As the epidemic situation worsens in Ile-de-France, forty-one crisis medical directors from the AP-HP group are sounding the alarm. In a column published on March 28 in the Journal du Dimanche, professionals warn against the increasing number of hospitalizations to come and the lack of beds to accommodate patients with Covid-19.
- In a column published by the JDD, doctors from the AP-HP warn against an overload of resuscitation which would force patients to be “sorted”
- Faced with this acceleration of the epidemic, “reassuring” news: three million new doses of vaccines are expected in France
“In the next fortnight, we have almost certainty about the number of critical care beds that will be needed, and we already know that our care capacities will be exceeded at the end of this period.“, alert the signatories of the gallery.
This worrying increase in cases of hospitalizations and the lack of beds should, according to the authors of the forum, force them to set up a system of “sorting”, by favoring patients who present an immediate danger of death.
“This sorting will concern all patients, Covid and non-Covid, in particular for the access of adult patients to critical care”, continue the doctors, specifying “never to have known such a situation, even during the worst attacks suffered in recent years“.
3 million doses of vaccines expected next week
At the same time, a more encouraging prospect in the fight against Covid-19 is taking shape in France: the mass arrival of new doses of vaccines, most of them coming from the vaccine developed by the BioNTech Pfizer laboratory.
Indeed, the country should receive 3 million doses as early as next week, “atwith a gradual increase to almost 4 million doses at the end of April, beginning of May“, specified the Minister Delegate in charge of Industry Agnes Pannier-Runachier at the microphone of Europe 1 Saturday March 27.
According to the Minister’s forecasts, these new deliveries should “confirm the objective of 30 million French people vaccinated by the end of June”. According to a statement by Olivier Véran made on Twitter on Friday March 26, France would have crossed the bar of 10 million people vaccinated.
“With nearly 400,000 injections (including 140,000 Astra Zeneca) made this Friday, France passes the 10 million mark. And 7.5 million French people vulnerable to covid have received at least a first dose. Thank you all for your mobilization!”posted the Minister of Health.
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