Covid 19: resuscitation services caught up by the 5th wave

Intubated, ventilated, personal in intensive care exhausted: chis fifth wave looks like the others in every way. For Juliette Simon, intensive care nurse, nothing has changed: “From the start, we have not left the Covid situation within the service. We always had it. It’s a bit complicated, we’re all tired and understaffed“. This intensive care unit is not yet full, four beds out of twelve are occupied.

“We always find the age factor, but the major factor that emerges is the fact of not being vaccinated“, summarizes Professor Michel Slama, deputy head of department at the CHU Amiens-Picardy. the number of patients in intensive care is gradually increasing in France, to 2,843 Wednesday 15 December. But above all, faster than expected. According to Gabriel Attal, spokesman for the government, the threshold of 3,000 patients in intensive care should be exceeded in the coming days, and that of 4,000 should be reached during the holidays.