The flu epidemic continues to progress in France on Friday January 3. Bruno Lina, head of the virology department at the Croix-Rousse hospital in Lyon, guest of RTL, explained that the number of cases had been increasing “significantly” for three weeks.
“We have an incidence rate which is around 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. It was last year’s peak. We are in the process of passing this peak a little,” he added. The regions are not all affected in the same way. “Île-de-France was practically one to two weeks ahead of to the rest of the country. Today we have Île-de-France highest incidence“, said the doctor.
“The whole regions and departments are in epidemic. Everyone is exposed to the flu.”specified Bruno Lina. Is it too late to get vaccinated? “We are protected, when we are vaccinated, two weeks after administration of the vaccine. Now, we are perhaps on the beginnings of what could be the peak of the epidemic,” he indicated.
So, people who get vaccinated now would be protected at the end of the epidemic. “There is a residual benefit, but compared to the benefit that there would have been if this vaccination had been carried out before the epidemic, it is incommensurable,” explained the head of the virology department who recalled the importance of respecting barrier gestures in the event of symptoms.
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