Arrived at the hospital without a medical history, this 57-year-old mother suffered from a severe form of Covid-19. When she was admitted to the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine) at the beginning of December, she had assured to be vaccinated by presenting a false certificate purchased from a doctor in August.
This false statement misled the medical team, who were unable to provide him with adequate treatment on time. His condition rapidly deteriorated, until his death, explained the establishment on Friday, December 10. “If this can have an impact on people who walk around with a fake certificate and on colleagues who issue fake certificates, it will be a good thing, because it is a very sad story”, at entrusted to franceinfo Professor Djillali Annane, head of the hospital’s intensive care unit. Franceinfo looks back on what we know about this story.
She lied when she was admitted to the emergency room
According to her husband, this woman contracted Covid-19 while taking care of their 13-year-old son, who himself would have been infected in college, reports BFMTV. Quickly, his condition deteriorated, forcing him to go to the emergency room of the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches.
As soon as she was admitted, she assured that she had benefited from a complete vaccination schedule. The medical teams then took charge of her by following the protocol applied to the vaccinated people. Corn her health continued to deteriorate even though she had no medical history, had no comorbidities and was too young to be at risk.
Alerted by the seriousness of her case, “which progressed rapidly to severe respiratory damage”, explained to franceinfo Djillali Annane, the healthcare teams carried out numerous additional examinations, including a search for antibodies against the coronavirus. “It was the first time that we saw a young woman, with no known medical history, a priori vaccinated, and who developed a form of the disease remarkable for its severity”, relates the professor.
She had a fake health pass to keep her job
It was the results of the antibody tests that revealed the vaccination fraud. The fifty-year-old had indeed received no dose of vaccine against Covid-19. “When we got the revelation that she had not been vaccinated, we understood her clinical history better.”, precise Djillali Annane.
Faced with caregivers, the husband admitted that his wife had been using a fake health pass since August in order to keep her job as a receptionist. “If we had known that my wife was not vaccinated, she would have been saved. But my wife did not want me to say it. (…) She was afraid of legal proceedings”, explained her husband on BFMTV.
Himself vaccinated, he assured the professor Djillali Annane have “struggled to convince his wife” to get vaccinated. ThisShe preferred to obtain a false certificate of vaccination from a doctor practicing in Nice, according to BFMTV. An attitude strongly criticized by the head of the intensive care unit.
“To all my colleagues who prescribe fake vaccination certificates, I want to say that they are doing their patients a disservice, and that they are cheating on them!”
Djillali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at Garches hospitalto franceinfo
For his part, the Nice practitioner claims to be the victim of professional card theft. The press adviser to the mayor of Nice confirmed to BFMTV that there had been “several dozen usurpations with his card, but also with those of other doctors”. “With other colleagues, he lodged a complaint against a center which allegedly issued hundreds of health passes this summer, writes the news channel continuously. An investigation is underway and the validation procedure has since been strengthened. “
His treatment could not be adapted
By lying about her vaccination status, the mother has postponed appropriate care and reduced her chances of survival. The information, revealed late, did not allow caregivers to change the treatment in time, and the 50-year-old died shortly after. Informed earlier, the medical team could have “early administer neutralizing antibodies, which are known to be effective in reducing the risk of disease progression”, specifies the professor Djillali Annane. A false vaccination certificate “does not protect against the virus and can falsely refer the doctor who takes care of you”, he stressed.
This case of false vaccination is not isolated. Medicare identified around 36,000 fraudulent QR codes at the end of September. In the teacher’s service Djillali Annane, the case of this woman would not be the only one. “We has at least one other patient without any antibodies, who has a severe form and continues to report having been vaccinated. “ The practitioner insists on the need to inform caregivers of his vaccination status : “It is fundamental to assume until the end when deciding not to be vaccinated, because the knowledge by the doctor of this information can sometimes change the way in which one takes charge.”