Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes records its 4th epidemic week
According to the epidemiological bulletin from Public Health France of January 9, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, emergency calls regardless of age for influenza/flu-like illness are increasing, at an exceptionally high level, higher than previous years (2068 passages, i.e. + 11% compared to the previous week), i.e. a passage rate for all ages of 4.4% (+ 0.5 point in one week). Including 1 in 4 (512) followed by hospitalizationrepresenting a hospitalization rate of 24.8%.
Among people aged 65 and over, the level of visits to the emergency room is exceptionally high, higher than all epidemics since 2010. The proportion of hospitalizations after going to the emergency room for flu for this age group is 51%. . It is more than 63% in the Loire, or 2 in 3 patients (and 1 in 3 all ages combined), compared to one in 2 in the Rhône and Jura.
-SOS doctors and general practitioners are facing the wave too
In private medicine, the number of SOS Médecins procedures for flu/flu-like syndrome is increasing, at a very high level at the beginning of January, with 1,549 procedures (+ 12% compared to the previous week), or 19.2% of the share of activity (+1.5 points in one week). The Sentinels network indicators also show an increase in the incidence rate of cases seen in general medicine, with a rate increasing to 313/100,000 inhabitants compared to 205/100,000 inhabitants. the previous week.
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