Rue de la République during confinement
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From the 1st confinement to today, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, like France, has seen its daily life turned upside down by the Covid-19 virus. Back in figures on the health impact of this virus in the region for a year.
A year ago all round, the French government decided to put France under cover to deal with the arrival of a new virus, so distant a few weeks rather than the start of the year 2020. In fact, hospitals, taken aback, could no longer cope with the influx of patients whose illness was still struggling to understand and treat. As of March 7, a week before containment, the virus had not yet caused any deaths. A year later, the Covid-19 killed more than 90,000 in France, including 9,365 in hospitals in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and 5,347 in nursing homes in the region.
During the first wave, up to 3,055 patients with this coronavirus were received in regional hospitals, including 783 in intensive care. A curve that declined at the end of the spring and the first confinement. During the summer, the Covid did not do too much talk. Fewer than 300 people were hospitalized and the deaths were counted almost only on the fingers of the hand. From July 1 to August 31, the Covid-19 claimed 47 victims while it had caused 1,737 in the hospital so far.
A second more deadly wave
The hardest part was yet to come. If the first wave in France still seems to have been the strongest, the second wave was much more devastating in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Despite curfews and a second lockdown, the number of sick and dead has skyrocketed. Up to 7,125 Covid patients received in hospitals in mid-November, more than twice the maximum of the 1st wave. Better management, however, the disease led proportionally fewer patients to intensive care beds (up to 866 on November 16). The deaths are gone. Of 2,751 victims of this coronavirus observed in hospitals in the region on November 1, the death toll was more than 6,744 victims on January 1.
Victims, mostly male (the male / female ratio is 1.2), whose figures from Public Health France give a rough profile. 96.3% of them were over 60 years old, of which 88.2% were over 70 years old. 65% of those who died had comorbidities. Among these last 36% had cardiac pathologies, 20% of arterial hypertension, 16% diabetes or 13% of respiratory or renal pathologies.
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