Three caregivers smoke a stone’s throw from the entrance to the emergency rooms of the Compiègne-Noyon hospital (Oise). Smiles of convenience, tension in words. “Where’s the rope?” one asks. She speaks of a war so weary that even fear seems resigned. “We’re used to it, almost. We have internalized. We’ve been scared for a year. ” A colleague shifts: she relates all the same “The very tense situation” within the hospital center. For the same reasons as since the start of the epidemic, and more: in recent days, 75 staff, out of 2,400, have tested positive for Covid-19. A growing and unprecedented contamination on this scale, which mainly affects medical units. And even the patients: “We see some of them coming out and then coming back a week later. Positive for Covid, probably caught here ”, suppose a nurse. The reasons remain undetermined for the moment, but the corridors rustle. The three caregivers recount the hearsay: “Seems it would be a varian
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Romain Boulho special correspondent in Compiègne, photos Stéphane Lagoutte. Myop for Liberation
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