During the first fifteen days of confinement, the doctors at GHU Paris psychiatry & neurosciences imagined the worst for their patients. Their psychiatric complications risked making them terribly vulnerable; they would be unable to maintain barrier gestures and any form of social distancing. Worse: they were going to disappear from the radars. During these two weeks, they feared the tsunami. We had to organize Covid units in twenty-four hours, reinvent the organization, transfer patients to this or that department unless we got her out. “Dantesque”, summarizes Professor Raphaël Gaillard at the head of the hospital-university center of the XVe borough.
However, the disaster never happened. A hypothesis has even emerged, worthy of the highest expectations: possible protection of patients against Covid-19, even when they form a population at risk (overweight, cardiovascular disorders). In Sainte-Anne (but it’s true elsewhere
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