Covid-19 patients flood French ICUs, and doctors are frustrated
‘What’s tiring is a second wave because people do not respect social distancing,’ one hospital manager says
22 September 2020 - 12:24
Marseille — David Fleyrat had almost cleared his Marseille hospital’s intensive care ward of Covid-19 patients during the French summer lull in new cases. Now the private unit is filling up quickly again and Fleyrat can barely conceal his frustration.
“It’s not doing our job that is tiring. What’s tiring is a second wave because people do not respect social distancing,” Fleyrat, who is MD of the private Clinique Bouchard-Elsan, told Reuters...
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