Younger patients without co-morbidities who develop severe forms of Covid-19 and occupy resuscitation beds: the third wave of the epidemic worries government and doctors.
“Young people in their thirties, 40 and a few years old, and who do not necessarily have co-morbidities but who develop serious or intermediate forms” of the disease flock to hospital, testifies to AFP Patrick Pelloux. “We are not at all in the same framework as last year”, continues the president of the Association of emergency physicians of France (Amuf).
Young people “affected by particularly severe forms”
A observation that shared Jean Castex, Thursday afternoon, noting during a trip to Seine-et-Marne that “More than 1,400 patients are hospitalized in intensive care in Île-de-France: among them – I have seen it again in Melun – younger profiles and without comorbidities”. “The virus spares no one: I solemnly call on everyone to respect the health restrictions”, he insisted.
“The throat tied”, the director of ARS Île-de-France, Aurélien Rousseau, added in a tweet: “Extraordinary teams of force take care of ever younger, very young patients affected by particularly severe forms”.
The incidence rate for 20-50 year olds is above 800/100000 in 93 and 700 in IdF. Resuscitators report more and more cases of young patients without co-morbidity entering shifts. The Covid is not just the story of the most fragile or the oldest, it is the story of all of us.
– Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) March 23, 2021
These new patients are “From all origins (African, Asian, Caucasian)”, from “ all social circles ”, underlines Dr Pelloux, who says to himself that“Something happened in the epidemic. Something has changed, but we don’t know what ”.
Relatively spared so far, young people do not have the right reflexes and are taken care of a little too late, according to him: “They look on the internet for answers, while neglecting their symptoms, and delay their calls to emergency services and their doctor.”
For a “mass vaccination”
Result: “When we arrive, it is more serious than if we had given treatment earlier, with oxygen or even corticosteroids”, annoys Patrick Pelloux.
An observation shared by Lidye *, 33, nurse at the private hospital Foch de Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine): “People under 50 say they are tough, invincible, and slow to call for care. However, this disease affects everyone, whether they are athletic or not, whether they eat healthily or not ”.
“Once the lungs are affected, it’s more complicated”, breathes the nurse, but this time, with the experience gained in a year, “We are not on a protocol where we sedate the person right away and intubate him. There, we keep them awake and we give them oxygen “.
For Mathias Wargon, « on a l’impression » that patients admitted to intensive care “Are younger. But what do the statistics say? “, asks this emergency physician from Seine-Saint-Denis, arguing that if “We have a little less old people”is that “The old are vaccinated”.
According to the latest data from Public Health France, the third wave, fueled by the English variant, spares no age group, including among the active. Thus, on Friday 120 people aged 30 to 39 were counted in intensive care on the national territory (103 on February 27), 339 among 40-49 years (against 228), 801 among 50-59 years (against 542).
“Since September, when we look at the incidence by age group, we see that it has increased the most among 20-29 year olds, and this increase is spread to other age groups”, notes Dr Wargon.
According to Stéphane Gaudry, professor of intensive medicine and intensive care at the Avicenne hospital, in Bobigny, the average age of the patients admitted has decreased, going from “about 65 years six weeks ago to rather 56-57 years now” .
“Calls to the Paris Samu have increased by 30% in just five days”, details Patrick Pelloux, who pleads for “A mass vaccination. We must abandon the concept of category and vaccinate the entire population! “
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