“Normally, the healthcare system will hold up against this wave of BA.5”, said Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council, Monday July 11 on France Inter, about the seventh wave of Covid-19 in progress. According to him, “There’s going to be tension, but I don’t think there’s anything other than tension”.
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“We have a hospital system that is tired”noted Jean-François Delfraissy, and, with the holidays, “we will have distributions that will be different, that is to say that we will have a lot of population movements on, for example, the coast, Languedoc, the South-West coast”. At the same time, “we have a virus that will continue to circulate and a healthcare offer that will be weak because there will be” caregivers “on holiday” and others “who will be contaminated”.
Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council and immunologist, about the 160,000 Covid contaminations in 24 hours: “We are dealing with a much more transmissible variant (BA5)” In the Paris region, the data suggest “a form of slowdown” #le69Inter pic.twitter.com/aQaW34bTrk
– France Inter (@franceinter) July 11, 2022
“We are going to have an impact on the healthcare system which will be rather late July but which could be controlled”, also declared the president of the Scientific Council. Thereby, “the latest data on both the rate of HIV infection [tests positifs]on a number of early markers, suggest that there is some form of slowdown occurring in the Paris region, which was the region initially most affected by the BA variant.5″. That “could indicate that we might have a peak, at least in the Paris region, which can be reached in the next week”.
Jean-François Delfraissy, about the return envisaged by some of the wearing of compulsory masks: “The measures have a relatively moderate impact in terms of population, the wave has gone now, the impact on the healthcare system will be moderate” #le69Inter pic.twitter.com/QhDQ0I41SH
– France Inter (@franceinter) July 11, 2022
“The wave is gone, there, now, and whatever decisions are going to be made” to deal with it, estimated Jean-François Delfraissy, when he was asked about a possible return of the obligation to wear a mask in transport. That said, “the constraint of wearing the mask is not that major”.
“You have to see that the measures that can be taken now in terms of precaution have an impact at the individual level but relatively moderate in terms of the population”he pointed out.
After more than two years of pandemic, “the discourse has changed on the global management of the pandemic” assures Jean-François Delfraissy, with European countries “who have chosen this strategy of living with the virus and the variants” #le69Inter pic.twitter.com/lsnqUlcuyS
– France Inter (@franceinter) July 11, 2022