According to the infectious disease specialist, the AP-HP hospitals are preparing for a new “level”, “in terms of opening medicine and intensive care beds”.
Karine Lacombe, infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital (AP-HP) in Paris, said this Sunday on BFMTV that the number of patients in intensive care would “easily exceed 5,000 or 6,000”. According to the latest daily report from Public Health France, 4,406 patients are currently in intensive care.
The infectious disease specialist, who assured our stage to have “fairly clear projections”, said that “we know exactly where we will be in two weeks, three weeks” or at “a much higher level than now”.
“In the AP-HP hospitals, we are already planning level 4. We are in level 3, in terms of opening beds and resuscitation,” she explained.
This new level will be “substantially the same as a year ago (…) At the height of the wave we had 7000 patients in intensive care, we think that we will easily exceed 5000 or 6000” she also predicted.
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