2023-10-06 10:19:00
Covid is making a comeback in nursing homes (illustration). – Credit:Raphaël de Bengy/Hans Lucas via AFP
For around ten days, the volunteers pedaling to move a three-wheeler intended to transport the residents of this nursing home in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique), south of Nantes, have been struggling a little less. In the front seat, there is only one passenger, instead of two who usually took advantage of the outing to chat in the fresh air. Not that the ride is overlooked, far from it. It was as a precautionary measure that the decision was taken.
And the main reason lies in an expression that we would have liked to have permanently removed from the vocabulary, especially since the WHO decreed the end of the global health emergency last June: social distancing. In this establishment, the coronavirus has indeed just brought back painful memories from the director, Christelle Andres. “We had forgotten, yes, because we all want to believe that Covid-19 is behind us, but that is not the case and we were quickly reminded of reality. »
“It’s coming back and it worries me a lot”
So it started regarding ten days ago. A forehead that heats up here, then a second, a third… The fever is there, with tingling in the throat and major bouts of fatigue as a bonus. The intense heat at the start of autumn has nothing to do with it, nor does the flu which has not yet entered the Sentinels network of Public Health France. But what happens next, we know it only too well.
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