The second wave of coronavirus is sweeping over France and according to many scientists it is worse than the first. 32 departments are seeing their number of hospitalized patients explode.
"The Covid-19 is 1 hospitalization every 30 seconds" wrote the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on October 31 on his page Twitter. The second wave of coronavirus is here and it is growing in many departments which are seeing their number of hospitalized patients soar. According to Le Parisien, 32 departments counted Monday, November 2 at least 20% of hospitalized patients more than at the highest peak of last spring. And nine of them see a 20% increase in the occupancy of intensive care beds. But what are they?
The south-eastern quarter of the country
These departments in crisis are located in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, a part of the Azu Coastr and the North. Île-de-France has not yet surpassed April levels. In Normandy, tkings departments (Manche, Eure, Seine-Maritime) are in the red. Overall, the south-eastern quarter of France is strongly affected, as the Gard (+ 51% of patients in intensive care) and Isère (+ 38%).
"We have a gradual increase in the number of occupied beds with a big jump every two weeks or so. The last weekend, we brought in 60 patients with Covid-19 including 20 in intensive care ", declares to Parisian Jean Emmanuel de la Coussaye, head of emergency medicine services and crisis medical director at the Nîmes University Hospital. Patients have even been transferred from the Nîmes CHU to hospitals in Toulouse and Brest. Last April, it was the other way around. The Occitania region has 65 patients in intensive care, 22 more than the maximum reached during the first wave, on April 7. "In the Grenoble metropolis, people are more aware of the situation. But in my more rural territory in the north of the department, they still believe they are protected even though nursing homes, which had absolutely not experienced the first wave, are now counting. 'hui more than thirty cases. In one of them, more than half of the caregivers are even infected ", explains to the newspaper Cendra Motin, LREM member of Isère. Similarly, Lozère, for example, shows a 100% increase in blood pressure in intensive care, going from 2 to 4 severe cases today.
Across the country, 3,721 people are currently in intensive care (SR / SI / USC) * with COVID-19 diagnosis, according to Public Health France, via its GEODES cartographic observatory.
* intensive care unit (SR), intensive care unit (IS), continuous monitoring unit (CCU).