Guest of Europe 1, Saturday noon, the president of the Medical Commission of establishment of the APHP, Rémi Salomon, called the French to the responsibility vis-a-vis a second "violent" wave and an increasing number of hospitalizations "more quickly "than in March. 

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"We are going to enter a tunnel and we do not see, for the moment, the exit."

Guest from Europe 1, Saturday noon, the president of the APHP Establishment Medical Commission, Rémi Salomon, expressed his great concern about the evolution of the indicators of the coronavirus epidemic.

"We have in front of us a real second wave, which we hoped in the months preceding, that it would be less violent than the first," he says.

However, "it will be violent. We now know that the number of hospitalizations is increasing faster."

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Another cause for alarm, according to Rémi Salomon, the distribution of this second wave "everywhere in France", with less territorial disparities than in the first, when many patient transfers had been organized.

"Many regions are concerned and we have all the patients to take care of, including those who do not have the Covid", he breathes.

"The caregivers know that in the coming weeks will be very difficult. (...) We do not know how we are going to do it."

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In many regions, the occupancy rate of intensive care units "exceeds 50%", according to Rémi Salomon.

"And again, when we say 50%, these are Covid patients, but there are all the other patients."

A situation which will force caregivers to "give priority to certain patients".

"People must understand that it is we who give this priority", warns the specialist, however, calling on people suffering from other pathologies to continue to go to the hospital.

"We must not, as in the first wave, that people self-censor themselves and do not come. (...) That they do not deprogram themselves"

"Every Frenchman must understand what is going on"

What about the curfew, now in force in 54 departments?

"A week is a little short to find out. But we have indicators that worry us, a little before hospitalization", explains Rémi Salomon, citing in particular "calls to the Samu" and "the percentages of tests PCR ", which" increase very strongly in the last 3-4 days ".

"So these indicators make us think that probably the curfew is not enough."

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The president of the APHP Establishment Medical Commission therefore calls on all French people to "become aware of the state of the situation".

"The government will take the measures it thinks it should take. But it is each French person who must understand what is going on. Restricting social relations, slowing down the economy, is extremely complicated in a number of ways. are, caring for us, perfectly aware. But we must limit as much as possible the contacts. "