“The virus is still present, it continues to strike, it continues to take elderly patients to the hospital. It kills less than before people who have no comorbidities but it continues to affect the most fragile people, deciphers Professor Claessens. We have always had Covid, we have no less today than we had yesterday.
“We are now in a situation where the virus has settled in the population. Many people who come to the emergency room with infectious symptoms of viral appearance are positive for Covid. Whether young or old. We We no longer have the pneumonic forms that endangered the entire population. But like any other infectious agent, the Covid affects and staggers the most fragile people..”
“Last winter we were in great organizational difficulty for a long time”
At the French level, observations show that the pathologies can vary according to the sectors. “Today, in our region, it is essentially respiratory forms. In other parts of the territory, digestive forms. Which is probably explained by islets with different variants “continues Yann-Erick Claessens for whom “there will certainly be epidemic rebounds thanks to winter epidemics, when it is cold and wet, as happened last winter”.
The head of the CHPG emergency department recalling the triple epidemic encountered in the hospital last winter with patients affected by influenza, Covid or RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). “It’s a situation that lasted almost four months and that put us in difficulty. We never implemented a white plan but we were in great organizational difficulty for a long time.”