• Strasbourg hospitals are not saturated but fear that the situation will deteriorate because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

  • For two or three weeks, they have again seen an influx of patients affected by Covid-19.

    Today, 18 are hospitalized on this subject, including four in intensive care.

  • “Today, the vast majority of people who are hospitalized for are not vaccinated, for various reasons.

    I am not even sure that out of the current 18, only one is vaccinated, ”explains Dr. Nicolas Lefebvre, referring to“ an extremely safe and effective vaccine ”.

Let this be clear right away.

No, the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) are currently not saturated because of the Covid-19.

"It's rather quiet for the moment," confirms Professor Julie Helms, from the medical intensive care unit of the New Civil Hospital.

This Tuesday, four patients were taken care of in his department, seriously affected by the famous virus.

A figure far from the peak reached during the first wave: 175 at the end of March 2020, against another 60 in November and as many in April, for the second and third waves of the epidemic.

But a figure up compared to early July, when the sheave was emptied of its Covid-19 patients.

“We have had some experience with this disease.

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But then, why worry?

“Because we see the same curves progressing in the wrong direction with steep slopes,” replies Nicolas Lefebvre, head of the infectious diseases department at the NHC.

“Now that we have lived through three waves, that we have taken care of hundreds of patients and seen dozens go into sheaves, we have some experience of this disease.

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The specialist insists: “The storm is approaching.

The dynamics of the fourth wave are similar to the previous ones.

In a few days, a few weeks, we will have to welcome many patients and we are already preparing for it.

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Under special conditions.

HUS emergencies are already under tension.

"We have a 10 to 15% increase in activity compared to usual," confirms Professor Pascal Bilbault, head of the pole.

“We see a lot of people reappearing who did not go to the hospital for a while.

And they come at a time when we have never had so many sick leaves at home… Across the hospital, there were as many in July as in the first six months, all bodies combined.

Not to mention that we are struggling to recruit.

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"There is a certain demotivation and a certain discouragement"

Despite a number of beds now reduced "because of reduced staff", all caregivers interviewed at the NHC say they are "ready to meet the needs".

"There is a certain demotivation and a certain discouragement," specifies Professor Ferhat Meziani, head of the intensive medicine and intensive care unit at the Strasbourg University Hospital.

But we will face it.

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Like him, all hammer out the same message: "Get vaccinated".

A call validated by their daily observations.

“Today, the vast majority of people who are hospitalized for Covid-19 are not vaccinated, for various reasons.

I am not even sure that out of the current 18, only one is vaccinated, ”adds Nicolas Lefebvre, referring to“ an extremely safe and effective vaccine ”.

“People have to get vaccinated otherwise there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh wave.

We will never get out of it, ”concludes Professor Julie Helms.

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