Covid-19: the president of the emergency responders fears a third “fatal” wave in March

“Very clearly, we fear this third wave“.  

The  president of Samu-urgences de France, Dr François Braun, is worried, stressing that despite”the taken procedures“the virus continues to circulate”at a high level“and that and”bad habits of the past are back“. Fearing a new epidemic rise”fatale“in March, he estimates that”we will not be able to absorb this third wave in the same way as the first and a fortiori the second“.

“At the beginning, there was the first wave, a tsunami in the Grand Est. But, with the confinement, the level had come down to almost zero.  

The  fact is that there has always been a background of Covid-19 in France and, since the end of the summer, for multiple reasons, it has increased again. We called it ‘the second wave’. But it was more of a rising tide over several months“, explained the one who is also head of the emergencies of the CHR of Metz / Thionville.

“Various measures have been taken, but this wave has only descended a little. And the third, which is announced for March, risks drowning us“, underlined the doctor, recalling that unlike in the spring, hospitals are not in” anti-Covid “mode and that”nursing staff are exhausted“. Added to this, the fact that administration has taken over from doctors in hospitals.”We have seen bad habits return. Starting with hospitals in western France, areas that had not been hit hard by this Covid-19 issue. At the beginning of autumn, bad habits had returned everywhere in France“”, deplores the emergency physician.

To counter this new wave, he urges everyone to “do a little“, he launches. And to conclude:”I hear the citizen moaning because of barrier gestures, confinement. But let him come to the hospital for a bit! I think of those who don’t have a job. For them, it’s hellish.”