The hospitals in Marseille, which form the third CHU in France, do not yet consider themselves "at all ready for deconfinement" and are worried about a slackening of behavior as the Easter weekend approaches, underlined their leaders on Thursday.
"If the confinement is not respected, all the gain that we had risked being lost!" ", Alerted Professor Dominique Rossi, president of the medical committee of establishment, during a point press telephone.
A stable number of patients
In detail, Thursday, 371 patients with coronavirus were hospitalized at the Public Assistance - Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), including 107 in intensive care, a figure now almost stable overnight.
"Leaving containment will necessarily have health costs and weigh on the hospital system" said Professor Pascal Auquier, epidemiologist and head of clinical research at the AP-HM.
"A risk of rebound effect"
In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, "it is unlikely that the immunization status of the general population is greater than 10%" and "the risk of rebound effect (...) is significant for the population and healthcare establishments ”, in the event of deconfinement, he underlined.
This will only be possible subject to the availability of proven serological tests in sufficient numbers and the maintenance of social distancing, added the leaders of the hospital group.
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