This Wednesday morning, the Lille University Hospital Center (CHU) held its first post-containment press conference. Barely two days after the French have finally been able to return to a semblance of normal life, the doctors at the Lille hospital are circumspect about the consequences of this health crisis. We are very far from the tomorrows that sing.
If the Covid-19 device was lightened at the Lille University Hospital, it has not disappeared. Nearly 180 beds are still reserved, in intensive care or hospitalization, for patients contaminated, or likely to be, by the virus. "Despite the deconfinement, we still welcome between 120 and 130 patients each day," says Frédéric Boiron, the head of the CHU. In the Covid part of the resuscitation service, around thirty people are currently struggling to survive the virus. "Three out of five Covid beds are still occupied, the service is far from empty," warns Julien Poissy, head of the sheave.
"A four to six week shooting window"
In the hospital, we take advantage of the lull to let the teams breathe. “We have a four to six week window of fire during which the epidemic will let us breathe. At the end of this period, an epidemic recovery is to be feared ”, underlines Professor François-René Pruvot, president of the Medical Commission of establishment of the CHU, pointing finger at the“ societal behavior ”observed since deconfinement.
"Since this weekend, it is not a progressive deconfinement which we are witnessing, but a total deconfinement", regrets Dr Julien Poissy. According to him, it is not reasonable to relax now after the efforts made for more than 50 days. “It takes wisdom. Reorganizing to absorb a second wave does not seem feasible to me, ”he insists. "Please spare us a new crisis," adds virologist Laurence Bocquet, stressing the state of fatigue of the nursing staff.
"We don't know what's going to happen"
While the Marseille professor Didier Raoult estimated, Tuesday, that "the epidemic is ending", at the CHU, we do not display the same optimism. "We want this to be true, but what we need to know is that we don't know what's going to happen," says the head of the intensive care unit. One of the hypotheses provided by the mathematical models used by the CHU gives food for thought: "If the number of people infected by each carrier of the virus becomes equal to what it was before confinement, in two or three weeks, we will be again saturated ”, warns the resuscitator.
So, to avoid the worst, there is no secret. "The key is everyone's behavior in their everyday life," according to the director of the CHU. Avoid the queues in front of the stores or congregate on the steps of the opera house, with or without a mask. "You have to grade common sense, wearing a mask is not a substitute for barrier remains," insists Dr Julien Poissy.
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