In a column published in the "JDD", a group of doctors calls for the implementation of "drastic measures" from this weekend to avoid "a second wave even more difficult to manage".

"We are going to face a difficult situation," warns Patrick Bouet, signatory and president of the national council of the Order of Physicians. 

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"We are going to face a difficult situation", warns Doctor Patrick Bouet.

President of the National Council of the Order of Physicians, he is a signatory of a forum published in the JDD which calls for the implementation "from this weekend" of "drastic measures" against the coronavirus.

"The feeling we have today is that we have not taken our heads out of the summer period and that we do not realize that the situation is changing very quickly," he explains. he at the microphone of Europe 1. 

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The measures requested should aim, according to doctors, to avoid "a second wave much more difficult to manage for hospitals and intensive care units than the first".

"I know what the establishments are up against and I see that, not the political actor but the structure which surrounds him, has not learned the lessons of what happened in the first phase", he supports Sunday. 

"We are reproducing the same system as several months ago"

The group of doctors demands that "everywhere, and at all times", the measures announced by the government are accompanied by "strict respect for the wearing of masks and barrier measures" and that all activities where they do not be suspended. is not possible.

"Bars and restaurants must strictly observe the closing times decided by the government and strictly apply barrier measures: the mask must be worn there at all times except during actual consumption," they add.

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For the moment, estimates Patrick Bouet, "we are reproducing the same system as several months ago without having met to debrief what had happened, to see where there had been difficulties".

"Without strong measures to fight against the epidemic, the number of patients admitted each day in intensive care in a month will be around 650, equivalent to that which we experienced at the maximum of the first wave and will exceed 1,200 in mid-November", conclude the doctors in their tribune.