In a Covid unit.

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PHILIPPE MAGONI / SIPA

  • This week again, the Covid monitoring indicators are on the rise in the CHU de Lyon.

  • There are more patients hospitalized to date than during the peak of the first wave observed on April 7.

  • The intensive care unit, where more beds have been opened, is full.

The weeks go by and look the same at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, where the surge of the second wave of the coronavirus is stronger than last spring.

According to the weekly data unveiled this Tuesday by the HCL, the CHU is currently welcoming more Covid-19 patients than during the peak of the first wave.

On April 7, 727 patients were in fact hospitalized in intensive care, follow-up and rehabilitation care or in conventional hospitalization.

They are 729 to date.

The sharp increase in hospital indicators, observed since early October in the metropolis of Lyon, is confirmed in the intensive care units.

As of November 3, 138 patients were treated there, three times more than at the beginning of October (47).

To cope with this influx of patients, which is also true in the hospitals of the Rhône, Bourgoin-Jallieu and Vienne, where nearly 1,000 Covid + patients are registered, the HCL have increased the beds in intensive care.

The sheave 92% occupied

Places in these services have thus gone from 139 in normal times to 237 last week.

Patients have also been transferred by medical planes to other regions less affected for the time being by the epidemic, such as New Aquitaine.

Despite everything, the occupancy rate of sheaves at HCLs remains very high, at 92% according to the HCL, which specifies on Tuesday that 63% of patients admitted to sheaves are coronavirus patients (against 38% on October 13). .

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The other indicators are not immune to the upward trend.

Emergency visits and calls to emergency medical services linked to the coronavirus are still on the increase this week.

And deaths attributed to Covid-19 have also resumed their progression.

During the month of October, 117 people died at the HCL against 38 in September.

Over the past two months, 667 patients have also returned to their homes, recovered.

A glimmer of hope that has been accompanied for a few days by another positive fact.

After a peak observed from October 21 to 27, with 903.6 cases per 100,000, the incidence rate of the disease dropped to 827.6 / 100,000 last week in the Rhône.

A similar trend is observed in the Lyon metropolis.

An effect of the curfew?

It still seems too early to tell.

And it will be necessary to wait a few days to assess the effect of this measure, then of confinement, on hospital activity, specialists counting on average eleven days between contaminations and the arrival of new patients in hospitals.

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