INTERVIEW
After thirteen days of deconfinement, it is difficult to say whether the coronavirus epidemic will start again or not. Health Minister Olivier Véran said it was too early to draw conclusions and that an initial assessment would be made at the end of the month. Invited from Europe 1 on Saturday, the president of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf) Patrick Pelloux said that the indicators did not announce a second wave. "There is no sign [of the second wave] as we were told, saying that there will be a return of what we experienced at the end of February and in March."
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"There is a decrease in calls and reports concerning the coronavirus, [which is] consistent with the indicators in town medicine and in the hospital," said Patrick Pelloux. The available data do not show for the moment a resumption of contaminations. The doctor cites in particular the mathematical models set up by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), saying: "We are on low statistics." "We may be in a new phase of the epidemic," he adds.
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To remain vigilant
The discovery of different clusters since the start of deconfinement, in particular in slaughterhouses, is not, according to him, a sign of recovery. The discovery of these foci would rather be inherent in perfecting the disease detection process. "There, [the homes] are monitored by the regional health agencies, we track people who have been in contact with the sick, they are tested, we put health measures in place and we isolate them," he explains. there, balancing the current follow-up with the failings of the early stages of the epidemic.
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If Patrick Pelloux is optimistic, he nevertheless considers it necessary to remain vigilant and scrupulously apply the barrier measures. "You have to keep the habits of the health barrier, continue to wear masks, wash your hands and have social distancing."