Posted on 01/06/2022 3:34:07 AM PST by blueplum
PARIS (AP) — France announced a staggering 332,252 daily virus cases Wednesday, smashing a string of recent records, as hospitals prepared drastic measures to brace for patient surges and the government strained to avoid a new lockdown.
With Europe’s highest-ever single-day confirmed infection count, France is facing an omicron-driven surge that is dominating the race for April’s presidential election and increasingly disrupting workplaces, schools and public life...
France’s weekly average of virus cases has doubled in the past 10 days...more than 72% of French ICU beds are now occupied by people with COVID-19.
The surge has prompted authorities to allow health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate..
,,, French President Emmanuel Macron heightened tensions with an explosive remark that prompted widespread criticism and was seen as a campaign ploy.
The vaccine push has also prompted tensions in France’s overseas territories. Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and other medical staff ,,,
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Cuomo in NYS allowed positive staff to report to work early on on in the epidemic.
60% of the beds were occupied with people with Athelete's Foot.
70% of the beds were occupied with people with Dandruff.
50% of the beds were occupied with people with testicles.
So what?
Regards,
And unless they’ve been draconian about testing vaxxed employees, which I’ll bet they haven’t, the Euroweenies have been allowing infected staff to work all along.
Haven’t heard anything about nosocomial spread in European hospitals, have we?
Not officially.
But now news is starting to come out that there are folks in hospitals who have CoupFlu but weren’t admitted with it/for it.
How should we suppose that happens, eh...?
If there’s nosocomial spread by vaxxed superspreader employees, that’s a problem.
Nasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: Synergistic or alternative to intramuscular vaccines?
It is striking that all marketed SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are developed for intramuscular administration designed to produce humoral and cell mediated immune responses, preventing viremia and the COVID-19 syndrome. They have a high degree of efficacy in humans (70–95%) depending on the type of vaccine. However, little protection is provided against viral replication and shedding in the upper airways due to the lack of a local sIgA immune response, indicating a risk of transmission of virus from vaccinated individuals.
Why folks should worry about health systems that demand employees get vaxxed and fire refuseniks with likely better immunity.
“world’s most-vaccinated populations”
I see no mention of what percentage the vaxxed account for in 72% occupancy rate of the ICU.
random search, this article Dec 29 says 70% unvaxxed:
70% of people hospitalized in intensive care units aren’t vaccinated.
https://newsadvance.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/france-ups-pressure-on-unvaccinated-amid-record-infections/article_077bfa31-3983-59a1-927d-faaba7ee7bbf.html
with Omi, unvaxxed have somewhere between a 20-50% less risk of hospitalization than if they caught Delta. Omi can and has killed but vaxxed or unvaxxed, very few end up in ICU (10%?). So the unvaxxed ICU patients are most likely to be Delta patients and the vaxxed ICU patients are more likely to be Omi patients. And unvaxxed, as we know from last spring, don’t do well with Alpha or Delta, whereas the vaxxed have a 20% or so chance of not doing well, depending on age, vaccine, immune system, blah blah.
here’s a risk link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/omicron-variant-has-lower-risk-of-hospitalization-studies-suggest.html
The immediate issue with Omi is volume due to high infectivity. Two or three times the number of admissions and they all have to be isolated because all are at different stages of infectivity (and activity), even if asymptomatic. Which limits space for non-covid patients, who, in some cases, are shipped out, which causes a hardship on their families having to chase them to another city or county. In the US patients can even be transferred to another state, but it’s harder for those small European countries to do that.
Great post
Chuckle.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/
Yea just think, with a population of 67 Million at a case rate of 332K/day, in only 200 or so days the ENTIRE country will be a case. Mental Case??????
Perpetuating the election infection myth...
Anybody sick?
This fixation with “Covid cases” is asinine.
It is virtually meaningless, yet is used to drive policy that is misguided at best, and malicious at worst.
France as of 6 January 2022
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/france
( 125,797 “officially Covid dead” French / 65,490,955 population of France ) x 100 = 0.192 %
Less than two tenths of one percent dead across two years of this pandemic. Case-demic now.
This is why cases are filling the headlines, while death counts are submerged in the news in 2022.
Agreed. It is likely that many ADE deaths, as they occur, will be twisted into co-Covid,Covid-related and other such taxonomic tricks as the WHO developed in April of 2020 when “presumed” was counted in the mix.
So easy to check an official source, rather than “random search” a news article from a Lynchburg, Virginia, copy-paste media, and then report a fabrication as hard data.
Hard data with source:
% of Population Fully Vaccinated 74.20%
The surge has prompted authorities to allow health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus to keep treating patients...
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Having fired all the people who were healthy but refused to get vaxxed because they would be a health hazard, hospitals are now mysteriously short staffed and are going to have known infected (but vaxxed!!) workers treat patients.
Lib logic.
Well, apparently you've not been to a busy waiting room / area, esp. an ER waiting room (or lobby, for that matter) in what, your entire adult life?
That does beg the question of why such areas are so cramped in almost all facilities, while huge spaces are wasted for aesthetics in many hospitals. It's as if the architects and those who approve the designs are totally ignorant of infectious diseases, esp. respiratory infectious diseases. But, that's a little different discussion...
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