He hadn't been there with the back of the spoon. Gilead, the government, the scientific council… During his appearance before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the management of the coronavirus crisis on June 24, Didier Raoult had spared no one.
But the response to these criticisms came from elsewhere this Wednesday. "It seems essential to me (...) that the work of the commission cannot be based on factually false elements, and that the necessary follow-up can be given", explained the director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, in a letter to Richard Ferrand.
The boss of the Public Assistance - Hospitals of Paris believes that certain words of the very media professor Marseilles "seem to amount to a false testimony".
Martin Hirsch points in particular to two passages from the hearing of the boss of the IHU-Mediterranean. The one in which he mentioned an estimate of the death rates for patients in intensive care, and another concerning an 80-year-old Chinese patient hospitalized in Paris at the end of January and died in mid-February, the first death outside Europe.
Mortality rate
“The mortality in the resuscitation here, in this work always, is 43%. With us, it is 16%, ”Didier Raoult had indicated to the deputies, without specifying exactly where he got these figures.
In his letter, Martin Hirsch assures that “we have no data which places the mortality in resuscitation of the AP-HP at 43%. On the other hand, there is to date no published study which compares the mortality rates in intensive care, evaluated under controlled conditions, between Parisian and Marseille hospitals ”.
The entourage of Professor Raoult referred to the results of the register "European research network in artificial ventilation" contained in a "report of the AP-HP crisis cell of April 14". Dated two and a half months ago, the period of the peak of the epidemic in France, it indicates that the percentage of deaths in intensive care was then evaluated at 43% at the AP-HP and 41% outside the AP-HP.
Chinese patient did not go back and forth
He also refers to a television interview with Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital (AP-HP), which indicates that the mortality rate “for Paris (…), for the sick in resuscitation, I confirm, it is of the order of 40% unfortunately. But Marseille, I have absolutely no idea ”.
Regarding the 80-year-old Chinese patient, Didier Raoult had indicated that he had presented himself "at the Pitié-Salpêtrière", had "returned home", then "returned seven days later" and had "come to die in a hospital "
“The only 80-year-old Chinese patient to whom Professor Didier Raoult can refer was admitted on January 25, 2020 to the Georges Pompidou European Hospital. He was never sent home, "said Martin Hirsch, recalling that this patient was then transferred" to Bichat hospital, national referral center ", where his daughter, also ill, was also taken into care. charge before healing.
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