Stéphane Place (in Bordeaux), edited by Solène Leroux 08:02, February 09, 2022

If the Covid-19 epidemic is decreasing in France, with a 30% drop in cases over a week, this does not necessarily translate to hospitals.

At the Bordeaux University Hospital, "we are still at the peak of contamination", testifies Benjamin Clouseau, resuscitator on site.

Europe 1 visited the Bordeaux establishment.

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While the risk of reinfection with Covid-19 is also reduced by the decline in the epidemic, where new cases decrease by 30% over one week, this is not the case everywhere.

Hospital admissions are not dropping and the pressure remains constant.

There are 33,000 sick and more than 400 dead every day.

"We did the hardest part", hoped Olivier Véran, Tuesday, at the National Assembly.

An opinion that we do not share at all at the Bordeaux University Hospital.

"In Aquitaine, we are still at the peak of contamination, it has not decreased. In intensive care, the situation is a little less serious with Omicron", explains Benjamin Clouseau, intensive care doctor at the hospital.

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“We always have a few non-vaccinated people who have serious pulmonary forms, but above all we have a lot of immunocompromised people who themselves have serious symptomatic forms”, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. “And this population Unfortunately, that is the biggest victim of this Omicron wave."

A number of deaths which has "decreased little in recent months"

Doctor Clouseau also recalls that a "Covid in intensive care, it can go up to more than 20 days".

In his hospital, "we always have entries into intensive care, and we very slowly lock the patients of the Covid of December, which was essentially the Delta variant".

"When we arrive in intensive care, for a Covid, we still currently have around 20% expected mortality. In the immunocompromised, because they have other frailties and other comorbidities, this proportion is slightly higher," he insists.

According to him, the good figures for the epidemic in France hide the fact that there are "still in France between 200 and 400 deaths per day from Covid-19", a figure which "has decreased very little over the last few months" .