A scene that has become common.
France and Great Britain, same fight.
While France must face an epidemic of fluGreat Britain, for its part, is facing what the Anglo-Saxon media call a “quad-demic”. In other words, a quadruple epidemic : flu, Covid, VRS (virus) and norovirus. A real waltz of respiratory viruses which puts pressure on the health system.
Flu: 2000 hospitalizations per day
As a result, many hospitals have declared critical incidents across the country. A procedure which allows “create capacity, help discharge patients, relieve pressure on our emergency department and free up ambulances and their crews”according to Kate Shields, regional director of the NHS (the equivalent of Santé Publique France in Great Britain) in the columns of the Daily Mail.
-Because the demand is impressive. Imagine: the emergency room at the Royal Cornwall Hospital was so crowded that patients were forced to wait for hours in ambulances which themselves were queuing outside. In Walsall, Wales, “up to 90 ambulances waited to drop off patients outside the hospital” on January 1, Sky confirms.
In Britain, almost 2,000 people a day were hospitalized with the flu at the start of December. 3.5 times more than last year at the same time.
