According to the minister, the question of vaccination is central, both for caregivers and patients.
Faced with the flu epidemic which has intensified since the beginning of January, 87 hospitals have triggered the white plan, this system which makes it possible to deprogram certain operations or to recall staff from leave, as recalled Bfmtv.
Guest on the television channel this Tuesday, January 14, Yannick Neuder, Minister responsible for Health and Access to Care, indicated that we are “generally moving towards a peak within ten days”, specifying that the evolution of the epidemic is “very heterogeneous” depending on the region.
According to the minister, several factors including the “relaxation of barrier gestures” explain the virulence of the epidemic observed this season. “During the Covid period, we didn’t have gastroenteritis or the flu because we washed our hands, we coughed into our elbow, we put on a mask, I think that collectively it eased up,” he said. -he entrusted to our colleagues.
We “need to vaccinate caregivers more but especially patients,” he said, also emphasizing that “we will have to ask ourselves the question” of compulsory vaccination.
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