2023-05-29 22:24:47
Every day, around thirty people die with the Covid in France. The High Authority for Health recommends maintaining two vaccinations per year for people over 80 and for the most fragile. Arnaud Le Vu / Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect
The WHO has sounded the end of the health emergency, but the disease has not disappeared and remains dangerous for the most fragile.
On May 5, the World Health Organization officially turned the page on Covid-19 by declaring that the disease was no longer a health emergency of international concern. This does not mean that the disease has disappeared: the virus is therefore still circulating, and even quite widely, if we are to believe the analyzes carried out in wastewater in some countries. But it is also less visible. “The first difficulty we face is the lack of indicatorsnotes Mircea Sofonea, lecturer in epidemiology and evolution of Infectious diseases at the University of Montpellier. There is much less testing than before and most countries have dropped their surveillance. The virus kills much less now, but mortality is still high, because Sars-CoV-2 kills 3 to 4 times more than the flu.» In France, the evolution of care in hospital services has not been published daily since March. And, by dint of…
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