This is one of the most scrutinized criteria to decide on containment. The situation at the hospital – particularly in intensive care units, which welcome patients with Covid-19 in serious condition – remains tense, with nearly 6,000 patients in critical care. In recent days, the number of these patients has stopped growing, but the trend is still fragile. Is this enough to consider deconfinement by mid-May?
At the beginning of the month, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, envisaged the passage of ” peak ” of the third wave in intensive care by the end of April. The beginning of the decline in critical care could have started: “It has stabilized for a few days”, he notes in an interview with Telegram, Monday, April 19, while refusing to set a level to reach in this area. “Rather than a quantified objective, what matters to me is that we can resume the deprogrammed operations as quickly as possible”, he adds.
Diversity of situations
According to the models of the Institut Pasteur, updates on Monday April 19, which are based on epidemiological, meteorological and mobility data, “A drop in hospital admissions and bed requirements in the coming days” draws well ” on a national level “. This could nevertheless take the form, in certain metropolitan areas, of “Trays”.
In hospitals, we remain cautious about this horizon of mid-May, given the diversity of situations between the different regions. “In the same way that certain departments were targeted very early on with restrictive measures, the reduction of the measures must be examined according to the situations of each territory”, defends Olivier Claris, president of the medical commission for the establishment of the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), worried to see the curve of viral circulation still oscillating in the Lyon metropolis between sharp drops and rises.
Monday April 19, the Minister of Health said “Open to the idea of a territory-by-territory approach in lifting braking measures”. “Because, if the incidence does not drop frankly and that the pressure does not ease on resuscitations, there will be no other choice but to maintain restrictions, except to assume with the population that we cannot. more care, tomorrow, for all patients who need it ”, resumes Olivier Claris. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the maximum level of deprogramming of surgical interventions for patients without Covid has been in effect since April 7.
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