Hospital tension is still as strong in the Vosges where the Covid-19 continues to saturate the services. In the department, 28 patients are to date in critical condition, out of the 190 hospitalized.
If in Épinal, all the intensive care beds, increased from twelve to eighteen, are occupied, in Remiremont, seven places out of the ten welcome patients of severe form, out of the sixty patients hospitalized because of the Covid. “The level is high, with a tense situation,” reports Dominique Cheveau, director of the hospitals of Épinal and Remiremont.
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And this third wave takes away the truths of yesterday less relevant today. “It affects more young people (50-75 years), more people and the state of health deteriorates more quickly. The virus is smarter, more nasty, more contagious, ”insists Doctor Mazen Chammas, orthopedic surgeon and president of the establishment medical community (CME).
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Vaccination proves its worth
The prevention of contamination is essential for this specialist. “We must prevent patients from going to intensive care. We do not save them all (24% of deaths) and the returns are very long, ”warns the one who puts real hope on vaccination, a source of immunity.
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Because the virus no longer necessarily focuses on subjects with risk factors. Healthy young people can develop respiratory forms. The vaccine has been proven, according to Doctor Pierre Renaud. The elderly, exposed during the first two waves, no longer saturate the services. “In retirement homes, we have not had cases of reinfection of serious forms of these vaccinated patients. A reassuring element. “
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All the more so since the vaccination center of the Remiremont hospital will move under the recent operating theater to speed up the pace and go from 120 Pfizer injections per day to 360. On the condition that the doses follow, as hoped. Doctor Stéphanie Chevalier, director of the center, who has witnessed 8,000 injections to date, including 5,000 first doses.
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