Emergency physician Patrick Pelloux cash on the Covid-19 pandemic: "It will not disappear this year"

The coronavirus entered the lives of the French at the start of 2020 … not to leave again. For nearly a year now, France has been living to the rhythm of the confinements and curfews put in place by the government which is trying to stop the epidemic. But nothing really seems to work: according to figures from Public Health France stopped on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 9,362 hospitalizations and 1,804 intensive care admissions took place during the last seven days. A situation that "is degrading" and "is very worrying in ten departments" as the government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced after the Council of Ministers on Wednesday February 24, 2021, according to Europe 1. On Thursday February 25, 2021, Prime Minister Jean Castex is planning to give a new press conference.

Rumors have been rife since this announcement: will the whole of France be subject to a curfew during the week and confinement at the weekend as is already the case for Nice? Until when will the measures remain? The French are asking themselves many questions during this complicated period. The emergency physician Patrick Pelloux, who was already encouraging them to prepare for a new confinement during his stay in Do not touch My TV in January 2021, again showed pessimism on Wednesday February 24, 2021: "We are not done with this epidemic! It will not disappear this year with all the variants that appear!", he launched on the set of Big Mouths. A terrible prediction. Patrick Pelloux also considers that the vaccine strategy is completely failed and that local containment will not work.

"People are not doing well"

The Paris SAMU doctor believes that there is "really a huge social problem". His hours spent in the field allow him to analyze: "That is to say that we no longer see the health system except through the prism of Covid-19, so you have all the others … You have alerts from psychiatrists, child psychiatrists (… ) who tell you: 'The consultations are overflowing, people are not doing well.' "A sad observation.

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