The department of Paris has the highest number of deaths, ahead of Bouches-du-Rhône.

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  • An article from the actu.fr website states that the Bouches-du-Rhône department "has the highest number of deaths linked to Covid-19 with 2,659 deaths of people diagnosed positive for Covid-19".

  • However, this is the department of Paris, with 3,212 deaths recorded since March 20, 2020.

  • The Bouches-du-Rhône department also has the highest number of healings with 14,889 people cured, against 13,513 in Paris.

The Bouches-du-Rhône department, the most affected by the number of deaths from Covid-19?

In any case, this is what an article on the actu.fr website, published on March 2, says.

It is titled "The Bouches-du-Rhône has the highest number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in France".

It can be read that the Bouches-du-Rhône department totals “2,659 deaths of people diagnosed positive for Covid-19”, according to data from Public Health France.

As well as this statement: "it is in the Bouches-du-Rhône that the number of people who have died from Covid-19 is the highest, since March 1, 2020".

However, this is not entirely true since the department of Paris comes before that of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the number of deaths due to Covid since March 20, 2020. With exactly 3,212 deaths recorded on February 28.

This number reached 3,258 in Paris, against 2,705 in Bouches-du-Rhône on March 3, the most recent data.

Number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

“You have to relate these figures to 100,000 inhabitants anyway to get a more precise idea of ​​the situation.

It is quite normal that there are more deaths in the departments where there are the most inhabitants.

Relating it to the number of people infected with the virus can also be relevant, ”emphasizes Pascal Auquier, epidemiologist at AP-HM.

And when we report this number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Paris remains at the top of this sad ranking with nearly 149 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, against nearly 133 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

The greatest number of people healed

“In practice and without necessarily comparing each other, there are departments and cities that are more affected than others.

To say that the Bouches-du-Rhône were spared during the first wave is not true.

The department is playing in the big leagues in terms of the impact of Covid-19.

But as I said, you have to relate to the size of the population, and even more to the number of contaminations in the population.

Yes there are many deaths, but it is proportional to the number of infected people, ”recalls the epidemiologist.

And the Bouches-du-Rhône department is the one with the most healings, with 14,889 people cured, against 13,513 in Paris, a more populous department.

If we report these data per 100,000 inhabitants, that gives nearly 732 people cured per 100,000 inhabitants in the Bouches-du-Rhône, against 618 people cured per 100,000 inhabitants in Paris.

Disparities difficult to explain

These wide disparities between the departments and the regions of France are difficult to explain.

“We were the champions of the incidence rate and Nice has been overtaking us for a few weeks.

Whoever knows why is very strong.

There are a lot of things related to behavior, to the population's support for the measures.

There is a diffusion and a resonance that we know, but that we do not understand, ”admits Pascal Auquier.

The departments of western France, from Brittany to the Pyrénées-Atlantique, are for example much less affected than those in the east, without knowing exactly why.

Still, the Bouches-du-Rhône is not the department where there are the most Covid deaths, but the one where the most people have recovered.

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