While the President of the Republic will speak this evening at 8 p.m., 85 health associations are calling for a “successful deconfinement“: doctors and “healthcare users“mainly ask”coherence, concreteness and means“.
How to avoid a general reconfinement, similar to that of spring? The associations propose a strong measure: reinforce the isolation of sick people and their contact cases with “the implementation of a complete restriction of movement and visit, under control and reduced to the time of contagiousness“.
Clear : people with Covid-19 and their case contacts must isolate themselves at home as soon as the first symptoms of infection with the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus appear for at least 7 days, even without having taken a test .
But for this flagship measure to work, adjustments are necessary. “The key word is: accompaniment“says Claude Rambaud, the vice-president of France Assos Santé, in a column published by our colleagues from the Parisian. The authorities will thus have to create the conditions “material and human“Isolation.
Better isolate Covid-19 patients and their contact cases
First, the guarantee that patients with Covid-19 will have no loss of salary. “Otherwise, for some, not going to work is not an option, sick or not. Take a carer, paid by the day. Without compensation, she will go. It is the very principle of reality. Today, isolation is a luxury that not everyone can afford“underlines Claude Rambaud.
Deuzio, logistical help for isolated people. “Protection also involves helping infected people, it can go as far as shopping. You have to act on a case-by-case basis“explains Mady Denantes, general practitioner in Paris.
Third, better identify contact cases. “This requires a massive increase in the number of people assigned to the search for contact cases, too few today“says Jean-Pierre Thierry, public health doctor and medical advisor to France Assos Santé.
“Until now, isolation has been the poor relation of the triptych test, trace, isolate. Now we have to make it a great success. The more we accompany him, the more he will walk. As a result, the end of yo-yo games with the virus“concludes geneticist Axel Kahn.
Source: The ParisianTuesday, November 24, 2020
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