The fourth wave of contamination by Covid-19 will present a "major risk" for hospitals if it arrives in August, fears the director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France Aurélien Rousseau, in a interview with the

Journal du dimanche

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"At the end of three waves, there is no longer any doubt: yes, there will be an impact on the hospitals", affirms Aurélien Rousseau, noting that "the projections of the modelers of the epidemic are more uncertain than the summer last ”because it is not known in particular“ what brake will play the vaccine coverage ”vis-à-vis the Delta variant.

According to him, “the major risk would be an early arrival of the wave, in August, in a period of staff shortages.

If it takes place in September, the staff will be more numerous to have resumed, but we do not evacuate a year and a half of mobilization in a few weeks of leave ”.

To mitigate this wave and allow hospitals to hold out, "we have a massive weapon: vaccination", insists Aurélien Rousseau.

"Positive discrimination" in the allocation of doses

In Ile-de-France, "it takes six days on average to get an appointment" against "12 just after the intervention of the President of the Republic, when everyone rushed to get one," notes he added that "this week, we have enough to carry out 800,000 injections: it is almost our record and a feat in the middle of summer". In addition to vaccination centers, to reach out to people furthest from care, “alongside physicians, we rely heavily on pharmacists to identify and support people with co-morbidities, and on nurses who come to their homes. », He explains.

And in terms of territorial inequalities, "we are making positive discrimination in the allocation of vaccine doses, by over-providing Seine-Saint-Denis, for example".

"We did not discover health inequalities with the pandemic but it revealed them, like a chemical precipitate", or "the culture of prevention is less strong among us than in many countries", regrets Aurélien Rousseau.

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