The decline continues in Alsace

No deaths in 24 hours, sharp drop in the number of people in intensive care in the Bas-Rhin

The number of suspected ER crossings for Covid-19 has dropped sharply since peaking around the third week of March. As of June 8, the Grand Est Regional Health Agency (ARS) estimated the Covid activity rate in emergency services in the greater region at 0.3%. In SOS medical associations, the same drop in activity is noted, after a peak around March 27. New hospitalizations for Covid-19 are also down, in all departments. The ARS still identifies several centers of infection in Alsace, only in medical or medico-social establishments, therefore isolated. In the health establishments, there are 4 in the Bas-Rhin, for a total of 21 cumulative cases and 1 only in the Haut-Rhin, for a total of 6 cases. In nursing homes for the elderly, there are six homes in the Bas-Rhin, for 39 cumulative cases, and 2 in the Haut-Rhin, for 12 cases. Finally, there are social and medico-social establishments for people with disabilities: there are only 2 homes in the Bas-Rhin, for 25 cases. There are no outbreaks of infection outside of health facilities.

According to the Public Health France report released on Tuesday evening, 850 people are hospitalized for Covid-19 in Alsace, 37 less than the day before. In 24 hours, there is a decrease in the number of people hospitalized in the Bas-Rhin (from 433 to 418, -15) and in the Haut-Rhin (from 454 to 432, – 22). Encouraging figures that are also found in the number of people in intensive care or intensive care: they would be 35 this Tuesday evening, against 53 the day before, according to Public Health France, with a drop which would be significant in the Bas-Rhin. There are no new deaths in 24 hours. The number of people returned to their homes continues to grow, going from 4,926 to 4,969: 17 Bas-Rhinois were able to return to their homes, and 26 Haut-Rhinois.

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Curves that say a lot

The curves of the number of people hospitalized, in intensive care, or died from coronavirus, visible on our site dna.fr also show a slow decline of the crisis. The saturation of Haut-Rhin hospitals reached its maximum on April 2, with 1,105 people hospitalized because of Covid-19, including in intensive care. The figures will therefore continue to decrease in this department. The greatest numbers of people in intensive care were reached on April 3: 283 in the Bas-Rhin, 163 in the Haut-Rhin. The curves for the number of deaths, after experiencing strong growth until approximately April 16, and in particular between March 18 and April 6, will start to “pack”.

The “peak” of the crisis, between the 1er March and early April

The first mention of “coronavirus” in your journal dates from January 11 this year. The disease is still far away, in China, in Wuhan. It was not until January 27 that we really saw the virus coming closer, with the cancellations of the Chinese New Year festivities in Mulhouse and Strasbourg. A month later, in late February-early March, the first concerns arose with an outbreak of infection spotted in the south of Alsace, between Village-Neuf and Hésingue.

On March 4, the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, evokes for the first time the role of “accelerator” played by the evangelical gathering at the Christian Open Door, in the Bourtzwiller district, in Mulhouse, from 17 to 24 February. Consequently, the number of cases, arrivals in emergency departments, placements in intensive care or intensive care, will continue to grow in Alsace, in the hospitals of Mulhouse, Colmar and Strasbourg.

In the aftermath of the municipal elections, just before the containment decision (March 17), the health situation “changed” in Alsace, with hospitals transformed into “Covid centers”, as in Mulhouse. The first medical evacuations, by plane, take place on March 19. Later evacuations by medical TGV, to hospitals in the west of France.

On March 24, we deplore the first deaths of Alsatian doctors in contact with the virus.

It was not until the beginning of April that a slight “lull” was announced in the Haut-Rhin hospitals of Colmar and Mulhouse: the number of patients admitted to the emergency room finally fell, for the first time since the beginning of March.

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