OPTIMISM – Observations made in hospitals in Île-de-France, as well as the latest epidemiological report from Public Health France invite cautious optimism, the epidemic wave seeming to be on the decline, despite a record number of daily cases.
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Difficult situation but under control? This seems to be the perspective of French hospitals in the face of Covid-19. After
having started 2022 in full uncertainty because of the explosion of cases linked to the Omicron variant, France could, like its neighbors, escape the worst.
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“We are moving towards scenarios which remain very complicated for the hospital but are not the hardest that could have arisen”, summarizes to AFP the researcher Simon Cauchemez, who oversees the forecasts of the Institut Pasteur.
“Inflection on the main indicators” monitored by the AP-HP
The data observed in the hospitals of Île-de-France in particular send “encouraging signs” concerning the Covid situation in the country, said this Friday Martin Hirsch, the director general of Public Assistance – Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) in an internal email addressed to his employees, relayed by BFMTV.
According to these observations, which reveal the“inflection on the main indicators that we follow”, the epidemic wave would be on the decline, despite record daily contaminations in the country. The number of calls to the SAMU because of Covid is thus “downward trending”, just like the number of conventional hospitalizations where “there is starting to be a slowdown in the progression”.
Second day of decline in the number of patients in the sheave
The latest epidemiological report from Public Health France (SPF) invites the same cautious optimism although the number of new confirmed cases remains at a very high level, at 329,371, or 24,049 more than the day before (305,322). Just over 24,500 patients with Covid-19 were indeed hospitalized on Friday, including just under 3,900 in critical care, a figure down slightly for the second consecutive day.
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A hope has been confirmed in recent weeks: if infections have experienced a meteoric rise under the pressure of the Omicron variant, extremely contagious, the latter proves to be less dangerous than the previous variants of the virus and infected Covid patients stay less long in the hospital than patients infected with Delta.
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