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HOSPITALS IN PARIS are near to capacity with an upsurge in Covid-19 patients.
In the French capital, 84 people with coronavirus died in the region’s hospitals, which are at 92% capacity.
There are 1,050 Covid-19 patients in intensive care and another 600 patients in ICU with other ailments, Aurelien Rousseau, head of the Paris region health service, told public broadcaster France-Info today.
France is in a month-long partial lockdown to lessen rising coronavirus hospital admissions and deaths.
Restaurants and non-essential stores are closed, but schools remain open.
The infection rate per 100,000 people remains extremely high at around 480.
With more than 27,000 people in hospital across France, the Covid-19 patients occupy more than 80% of the nation’s ICU beds, according to the public health agency.
That was the highest level since April.
Overall, France has 1.5 million confirmed cases and 38,674 deaths, the seventh-highest toll worldwide.
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We are very lucky to have decisive leaders in health and government. Advice needs to be acted upon. And the vast majority of the irish population did just that. Alot more people may have died if our hospitals were choked with critically ill patients.
@TheITGuy: april fools is months away yet
@TheITGuy: less hardship might have been caused except Varadkar ignored NPHET advice in 5-10-20. Decisive health experts yes thank god. Government ? What a cobbled together shambles
@TheITGuy: We have countless yobs on here saying not enough people have died so let’s open up more. It’s like our numbers are too boring for them.
@TheITGuy: Get off the journal, Leo. We know it’s you
@TheITGuy: ok Leo
@TheITGuy: your having a giraffe
@Tony Kennedy: varadkar…really? I presume you know he’s no longer Taoiseach and hasn’t been for while now. Any chance you might be a FF acolyte??
@TheITGuy: Many covid units within hospitals were closed in June and have not re opened due to a lack of patients. The Pandemic is over and has been over since June.
We need to get back to the normal hospital overcrowding and trolley crises because at least people will be treated.
@Vladimir Macro: you dropped your tinfoil hat.
You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time, all in all we’re not doing bad here as far as this nasty virus is concerned.
I wonder if one of our hospitals reached capacity would it be a news article on the French equivalent of the journal, I think not. Just keep sowing the fear….
@Paul Tennant: when Ireland went back into lockdown, it did make french news. Stop being paranoid.
@Paul Tennant: when Ireland went back into lockdown, it did make french news. No need to be paranoid.
@Damian Baker: Its propaganda, plain and simple. The infection fatality rate (IFR) from this deadly, deadly, deadly virus is about 0.6%, with the vast majority of those succumbing to this virus being in their 80’s with underlying health conditions, Death is an inevitability of living. The question is, are these lockdowns proportionate….
@Paul Tennant: well 0.6% IFR would be almost 30,000 dead with our population, so I reckon the lock downs are needed.
@Alan: I disagree totally. The vast majority of these people will die with or without Covid in any case. The HSE release its daily figures of people who have died with Covid, not because of Covid.
@Paul Tennant: Jesus the nonsense coming out of your mouth. By that logic everyone in this country will due regardless at some point so why bother with funding healthcare of any kind.
@Paul Tennant: So what? We will all die with or without Covid. We don’t have to accelerate the dying process. Do you have any elderly loved ones at all, or are you completely devoid of and incapable of any empathy?
@Gavin Conran: I am not saying that at all. I am saying that the virus appears to be fatal for aged people most of whom have underlying health conditions. The lockdown is essentially to stop our health service being overwhelmed (it has one of the lowest amount of acute intensive care beds per capita in Europe)
@Kevin Farrell: I say the suicide figures this year will make for interesting reading, also the dramatic surge in mental illnesses with Patrick Dunne’s hospital being overwhelmed. (bet that didn’t make the French news).
@Gavin Conran: your analogy shows no logic whatsoever and your conclusions devoid of any merit.
@Kevin Farrell: you will be voting on euthanasia soon, or can you not see what’s coming.
im off this platform ,no free speech.
@fish: It’s a privately owned site that has zero obligation to allow you post anything at all, much less allow you post whatever nonsense pops into your head.
@Tommy Roche: Sorry, meant ‘anyone’ rather than you personally. Have no idea what they wouldn’t allow you to say.
you cant post anything negative to the narrative
Hospitals in France were already close to collapse before Covid with staff badly paid and under resourced. The first wave hit them and the French media reported public hospitals lost many staff in the summer as very few measures were put in place to add staff. They hired a few, but not enough to compensate the departures and the staff deficit.
@Claude Saulnier: Thanks Nurse Claude. Go join the Gilets Jaunes.
@lelookcoco: The truth hurts, doesn’t it Doctor Coco.
Outrageous scaremongering. The real headline should be, “French hospitals are still not full”. How many of those ICU cases would be there even without a suspicion of them having Covid? 80%+, that’s how many. Stop making out that the virus is causing all of the deaths it’s cited in. Look at the data. 95% of the ‘victims’ were literally dying already. How many healthy people under 70 have died? How many more have died this year than in a normal flu season? None.
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