France: the 4th wave of Covid is confirmed, young people more affected

The vaccine seems decidedly to protect serious forms of the disease: in the Covid units, there are currently twelve times more unvaccinated than vaccinated people.

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In France, the hospital impact of the 4th wave of Covid-19 is confirmed.

Sick patients admitted to hospitals are more numerous and younger.

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At the start of August, more than 3,500 people had been admitted to hospital.

That is twice as much as last week.

This is an average for the whole territory, but obviously the trend is stronger in the most touristic regions.

Overseas territories particularly affected

So much so that in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Occitanie or even in Corsica, the

White Plan

was triggered, a crisis procedure allowing hospitals to deprogram operations and recall staff on leave. This is also the case in the overseas territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique: departments facing an " 

exponential growth in cases

 " of Covid-19 which began a third confinement on Wednesday evening, accompanied by a strict curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and travel restrictions, authorities said.

In Guyana, the health situation remains very tense.

While hospitals and intensive care units are always full, the vaccination rate in the department remains very low (largely because of false information circulating on this subject).

To alert the population, nearly 300 Guyanese medical staff signed a platform this week to call on residents to be vaccinated.

A forum in which caregivers also express their exhaustion after a year of pandemic.

The resuscitation services are full ...

Loïc Epelboin, infectious disease doctor at the Cayenne hospital center, one of the instigators of the call for vaccination.

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The unvaccinated more affected

This 4th wave affects the elderly less than the previous three, surely because this category is already massively vaccinated.

And the vaccine seems decidedly to protect serious forms of the disease: in the Covid units, there are currently twelve times more unvaccinated than vaccinated people.

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See also: 

Covid-19 in France: in a Toulouse hospital, the beginnings of a fourth wave

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