The presentation of the temporary deconfinement card this Thursday looks good a huge hiccup. The government has placed 35 departments in “red”, including the Lot, causing very many reactions of misunderstanding and indignation because this department of Occitania is rather spared by the Covid-19. But on the night of Thursday to Friday, the Regional Health Agency sent a statement indicating that it was probably about‘a mistake. Same thing for the department of Cher, or the prefecture recognizes an error, and error also in Haute-Corse, confirms the ARS.
Lot: an overvaluation of the emergency visit for suspected Covid-19
ARS Occitanie notes that this map was built on the calculation of an indicator that compares the number of emergency visits for suspected coronavirus and the total number of emergency visits. These quantified indicators are provided by each of the hospitals across France. Gold “A rapid analysis of these data concluded that a number of samples recently taken by Lot’s emergency services had led in recent weeks to overstate the percentage of emergency room visits for suspected coronavirus compared to reality. The indicator retained at the national level found it presumably distorted for the Lot department. “
The ARS ensures that “data imputed in error will be rectified in the hospitals concerned “ so that the indicator calculated for the Lot is calculated in the same way as in the other departments. ARS Occitanie has contacted Santé Publique France.
– Occitania ARS
It should be noted that the number of hospitalizations is decreasing in this department of Lot (from 27 people on 04/22 to 15/30/04) and the number of people hospitalized in intensive care fell from 9, on April 22, to one person, April 30.
