France braces for "Italian Scenario" on Coronavirus

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"Emmanuel Macron to address nation tonight as hospitals grapple with surge of infections. France is bracing itself to follow Italy in handling a sharp rise in infections and deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, with the government steadily introducing new measures to stop the spread of the disease and President Emmanuel Macron preparing to address the nation on Thursday evening. “The Italian scenario: we have to prepare for it,” said Jérôme Salomon, director-general of the French health department. Eric Caumes, who heads the infectious diseases department at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, said he was seeing sick patients arriving every day with severe respiratory infections. “Intensive care units are filling up very rapidly,” he said in a coronavirus debate on LCI television. “There is a risk that we’ll have to choose between coronavirus patients and the rest. We’ll soon be in the same situation as Italy.
So far, France has recorded 2,281 confirmed coronavirus infections and 48 deaths, but the numbers are rising rapidly and a comparison of the data suggests the country is following the same trajectory as Italy with an eight-day delay. Italy has had more than 12,000 cases and 827 deaths. Mr Caumes has called on his government to immediately take the same drastic measures as Italy and severely limit movement around the country and contact between people. France has so far ruled out a complete shutdown or closure of the borders, although it has banned meetings of more than 1,000 people, stopped visits to old people’s homes because of the vulnerability of the elderly and closed schools in various parts of the country with known coronavirus clusters. It has announced no plans to delay nationwide local elections due to be held on the next two Sundays."

https://www.ft.com/content/00d2866c-6471-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5

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This is a disaster 

[Morphine Prince 109,729]

Praying for you all. This is a MESS. 

[Chic 20,830]

I'm confused why it's necessary to even treat coronavirus patients in hospitals? As far as I know it can't be cured and I'm pretty sure most symptoms can be dealt with at home. Shouldn't they limit it to severe cases as well as below and above a certain age limit where it's most dangerous?

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Just now, Chic said:

I'm confused why it's necessary to even treat coronavirus patients in hospitals? As far as I know it can't be cured and I'm pretty sure most symptoms can be dealt with at home. Shouldn't they limit it to severe cases as well as below and above a certain age limit where it's most dangerous?

It is limited to severe cases, yes. Still a great demand, it seems.

[Fish 6,259]

Just now, Chic said:

I'm confused why it's necessary to even treat coronavirus patients in hospitals? As far as I know it can't be cured and I'm pretty sure most symptoms can be dealt with at home. Shouldn't they limit it to severe cases as well as below and above a certain age limit where it's most dangerous?

girl they arent giving hospital beds to 25 yo having mild flu symptoms. a lot of people need to be hospitalized. and it puts a big pressure on the healthcare system, and on other patients (other diseases still run while corona is out there!), creating a shortage of ressources to treat patients. 

[Red 99,200]

At least they know what's to come and can act beforehand instead of being caught by surprise.

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

AND just a few days ago we had users on Coronavirus threads saying nobody should panic. Those damn idiots are the ones who likely spread the infection around.

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Prayers to everybody and they love ones.

[coolninjaguy 1,239]

and y'all still not voting for bernie. good luck in 3 weeks when america is infected - just the test alone costs $3500. a single province in Canada (BC) has administered more free coronavirus tests than all of america combined.

[Ladey Gaygay 9,321]

24 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

Those damn idiots are the ones who likely spread the infection around.

Well...

[Francesca Cipriani 1,668]

Italy is an example to follow  we took courageous measures, close everything and stay at home is the best move.

[HeavyCapiLover 4,389]

I'm MAD at our government. Literally the only thing they do is telling people to wash their hands. They are forbiding protest but let schools and university open, where the **** is the logic?? It's like 35 years ago when they said that the Chernobyl's radioactive cloud stopped at the border, but it was a total lie. France is always late when something like this happen.

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41 minutes ago, Chic said:

I'm confused why it's necessary to even treat coronavirus patients in hospitals? As far as I know it can't be cured and I'm pretty sure most symptoms can be dealt with at home. Shouldn't they limit it to severe cases as well as below and above a certain age limit where it's most dangerous?

Those are the critical cases, people with severe pneumonia that need help getting their oxygen level up. They are needing oxygen, in one form or another. 

Some people in their twenties and thirties have ended up in the ICU. They really can’t put an age limit on admitting people.

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50 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said:

AND just a few days ago we had users on Coronavirus threads saying nobody should panic. Those damn idiots are the ones who likely spread the infection around.

I still don’t think you should panic, but then again that’s all this site does about anything lately. 

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3 minutes ago, WhiteWitch said:

I still don’t think you should panic, but then again that’s all this site does about anything lately. 

We have to because the ones who spread the virus DON’T LOOK SICK AT ALL. It’s not being worried about getting the virus, it’s about being worried about HAVING the virus and not knowing it, and then inadvertently passing it onto your elderly grandparents. Think about your loved ones, not just yourself.