D-18. The patient in room 172 has been fighting the Covid-19 for the last eighteen days. Intubated and ventilated, the man is 52 years old. Several probes gravitate around his naked body. His cheeks are pale, his eyelids yawn, his swollen hands are motionless. Everything seems extinct in him. Only his chest moves, under the … Read more
Wash your hands, maintain social distance, and above all “Test, test, test”. There are three of them, every day at 5.30 p.m., two meters apart, lined up behind a desk at the end of a very long meeting room, which is deserted because it is forbidden to access. There is the director general, the Ethiopian … Read more
Damien Roux, university professor and hospital practitioner of intensive resuscitation medicine, works in the medical and surgical resuscitation department of Louis-Mourier Hospital (AP-HP), located in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine. As of last weekend, this doctor was responsible for reflecting – in collaboration with other colleagues from the Public Assistance taking care of Covid-19 patients – … Read more
I’m writing from Italy, so I’m writing from your future. We are now where you will be in a few days. The curves of the epidemic show us embraced in a parallel dance in which we find ourselves a few steps ahead of you on the timeline, just as Wuhan was compared to us a … Read more
Marc Amouretti, 32, is a doctor in the intensive care unit at Louis Mourier Hospital in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), an establishment dependent on the Public Assistance of Paris Hospitals (AP-HP). In the front line facing the Coronavirus epidemic, he tells Release his daily life and how his service is organized to cope. Read also More than … Read more
Question asked by André on 07/03/2020 Hello, You ask us the following question: “We hear very contradictory figures in the media regarding the number of deaths due to the flu: 8,000 per year for some, barely a few hundred at 8 pm in France 2. What is the reality?” Thursday, on the television set, after … Read more
Embolized hospitals, overwhelmed doctors, forced to abandon in the corridors of patients corroded by the coronavirus and, finally, the whole Italy brutally placed in quarantine. Enough to revive questions about what really awaits France when the epidemic wave hits. On Tuesday, the death toll was 1,784 people infected in France (372 more in 24 hours) … Read more
It is 10:26 a.m. in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis) and the milestone of a thousand calls to the toll-free information number on the coronavirus is already on the way to being crossed, barely 90 minutes after the opening of the service. This Thursday, February 27 promises to be charged for the thirty operators, headsets screwed on the … Read more
Question asked by Ben on 02/24/2020 Hello, Among your many questions about Covid-19, you asked us about the symptoms that distinguish the seasonal flu virus. The answer is simple, they are the same. Here’s what the World Health Organization (WHO) says on their site about the new coronavirus: “Symptoms are dependent on the virus, but … Read more
NY – The popular urban merenguero, Omega “El Fuerte”, was hospitalized after suffer facial paralysis, local media reported on Monday Dominican An image of the meringue in the hospital went viral since the morning hours. It shows Omega in a bed receiving medical care, as reported by the Free Diary. Several presentations by the artist … Read more