2023-12-18 10:12:01
In terms of good practices, recalled by the health agency, wearing a mask is once more strongly recommended.
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The institution therefore wanted to recall some good practices. And also, on the scale of New Aquitaine, take stock of the situation. The one…
In terms of good practices, recalled by the health agency, wearing a mask is once more strongly recommended.
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The institution therefore wanted to recall some good practices. And also, on the scale of New Aquitaine, take stock of the situation. This has the advantage of showing, with supporting figures, that our region is ultimately not so badly off.
She even appears to be a good student, particularly in the fight once morest bronchiolitis. Very contagious, this respiratory infection mainly affects young children (under 2 years old), and more particularly infants, as well as babies born prematurely.
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The peak of bronchiolitis tends to end. Fortunately, “this disease is benign in a large majority of cases”, underlined Sylvie Quelet during a press briefing organized by the ARS. She is in charge of the deployment of a new preventive treatment, a drug called Beyfortus which has appeared in pharmacies since mid-September.
It is, in particular, thanks to this that New Aquitaine, the 3rd region of France in this area, obtains enviable results. 8,800 babies from New Aquitaine are now immunized until the end of December.
Maternity wards from 64 to the top
The rate reaches 74% across the entire regional territory, but maternity hospitals in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques do even better with 83.3% (compared to 65.6% nationally).
Thus, and while the rate of hospitalization following visiting the emergency room for sick children was more than 36% in October, “we feel that we are now on a downward slope”, welcomes Sylvie Quelet. The pressure on the hospital environment has eased.
To obtain Beyfortus to serve the pharmacies, “we called on state stocks”, explains our interlocutor, “and we then had to do a lot of careful work in terms of supplying the pharmacies”.
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In the field, the Béarnais pharmacists whom we interviewed, and unable to show us the slightest box of Beyfortus, do not entirely share this idyllic vision. They deplore the recurring lack of availability of this product manufactured by the Sanofi – AstraZeneca tandem. According to the High Health Authority, a test carried out last winter showed that Beyfortus would reduce the risk of hospitalization by 83%.
Flu: “it’s gone”
On the flu front, “New Aquitaine is not yet in an epidemic situation”, unlike other French regions, notes the regional health agency. However, and while these viruses have also mutated significantly, a flashing light has come on: “We feel that the pace of vaccination is stalling,” worries pharmacist Aurélie Fischer.
However, more than a million vaccines have already been sold, mainly to seniors (84% of prescriptions). A single dose of vaccine “may be enough”, remind the many health professionals authorized to give injections. This is why it is strongly recommended to take the opportunity to get vaccinated, “at the same time, once morest both flu and covid”.
It is worth remembering that the flu, responsible for 9,000 deaths nationally each year, sent nearly 1,400 people to hospital last winter in New Aquitaine.
Covid: “An acceleration in New Aquitaine”
While numerous family gatherings are looming, on the occasion of the end-of-year holidays, the ARS warns of “the risk of a triple epidemic”, with Covid being able to (re)come and play the intruder by coexisting in particular with the flu . This invitation to vigilance, to the strong return of barrier gestures, seems all the more legitimate as “there is an acceleration” warns Aurélie Fischer. In fact, this pharmacist, vaccination referent for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine health monitoring center, says more or less the same thing as the Pasteur Institute which, on a national level, has just mentioned “the upward slope of the epidemic “. According to Santé Publique France, this slight change in the situation can also be measured in terms of the activity of those involved in community medicine. Here once more, “slight increase”, we are told, particularly among the senior population (over 65 years old). However, in this same age group, New Aquitaine is, here once more, a diligent student since, among all the regions of France, it is here that we find the greatest number of residents in Nursing homes already vaccinated. 27% in this case. But, for experts from the regional health agency (ARS), there are at least two good reasons not to relax the vaccination effort. On the one hand, “it is important to continue vaccinating, including at the level of the general population, to maintain immunity”, recalls Alice Herteau of course. But this epidemiologist at Public Health France, for New Aquitaine, also does not fail to drive the point home on one of the perhaps most worrying subjects: “the latest variants are transmitted much more and we know, today “Today, the Omicron virus, for example, has mutated a lot.” However, the ARS is not sounding the general alert. “What we see is incommensurable with the past,” we heard during a recent press briefing. A few days before the holidays, Covid represents “less than 2% of the volume of visits to emergency departments” of regional care establishments. And “less than 5% of people who come to the emergency room are hospitalized”.
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