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As the French continue to be tested massively, Omicron broke contamination records on Tuesday, January 18. It is very contagious, but it causes fewer very serious forms. This is what the caregivers note at the hospital in Dreux, in Eure-et-Loir.
It is a small hospital, which is also facing the fifth wave. In Dreux (Eure-et-Loir) for weeks, the teams have been very busy. In the general medicine department, a glimmer of hope is emerging. Admissions of patients with Covid-19 begin to stabilize. Only nine out of twelve beds are occupied, mostly by unvaccinated patients, like Rodolphe Lami, 50 years. Without comorbidity, he has been on oxygen since Sunday January 16. “When it hits us, that’s what makes us think a lot”, he said.
Most hospitalized patients develop less serious forms than in previous waves, enough to make the head of the department optimistic. But in the intensive care unit, the tension continues to mount. Two new positive patients at Covid-19 arrived, which requires additional arms, because the manipulations are very delicate. Reinforcements do not prevent fatigue from weighing a little more every day, after almost two years of pandemic.
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