INTERVIEW
While the epidemic situation continues to deteriorate in France, would the hospital system be ready to face a second wave of Covid-19 contamination, comparable to that of March-April? Head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital, Gilles Pialoux, tries to answer this question in his book We were not ready , published by JC Lattès, a sort of daily journal of the epidemic, from which he tries to learn the lessons of this crisis.
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"Covid-19 is a disease of globalization"
"We have a real concern about the number of patients who return to the hospital. A second wave would be much more difficult to manage, because the staff are exhausted", he confides Thursday at the microphone of Europe 1, while the number of daily contaminations has been increasing for several days. "In the fall, we will have the Covid, but also the flu and all the respiratory diseases that circulate", points out this doctor. "There, it will become much more complicated", warns Gilles Pialoux.
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In his eyes, the management of the health crisis is a "political failure." "Covid-19 is a disease of globalization, it is a completely deconcentrated disease." He believes that Paris must give more leeway to the territories to manage the epidemic at the local level. "It is important that decisions are taken locally and not at the level of central power," he urges.