In the JDDepidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, researcher at the Pasteur Institute and member of the Scientific Council, fears a peak in hospitalizations linked to Covid-19 by July 18.
“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.dreads Arnaud Fontanet, member of the Scientific Council and researcher affiliated with the Institut Pasteur, in an interview with Sunday newspaper this July 10, 2022.
However, the epidemiologist has noticed in recent days a “slowing test positivity rate”. But he calls, in anticipation of the risk of the rise 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 those around them, to adopt barrier gestures, to wear a mask, to ventilate well and to reduce their contact.”
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“Personally“, Arnaud Fontanet said he was in favor, “at peak”to “return of an obligation to put on the mask in the metro or 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.
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