"We now have in Marseille a constant decrease in the number of diagnosed cases, but also in the number of cases hospitalized in intensive care, says the infectious disease specialist in a new video posted on YouTube on Tuesday ”. "We have the same data in the PACA region, more or less offset, the same data in France, in most European countries and in North America", explains Professor Raoult on the IHU site in La Timone in Marseille, who had already indicated a decline in the epidemic last week. “As for the number of deaths, it will be a little longer, because people often die more than a month after being infected,” he added.
Covid-19, a seasonal disease?
“We are on a downward wave, I do not predict the future, but if things continue like this, we have the impression that what was one of the possibilities of this disease, that is to say a seasonal illness is coming true. ”
«It is possible that within a month, there will be no more cases at all in most temperate countries, says Didier Raoult. It is a possibility which is not negligible and which will lead to a deep reflection (around the observation) that the arrival of an acute new disease is something to which all the rich countries are not ready. In the 15 countries with the highest mortality there are only rich countries. There is a disconnect between wealth and the ability to respond to situations of this kind. ” For him, the people who lead cannot be the ones who make decisions in emergencies: "react quickly by making quick decisions, this is not the usual time we are used to." It is a time of crisis. It’s like war and peace. This is the lesson that we must take here, otherwise we risk arriving after the battle, when the war is over, you will start to make therapeutic proposals, and that is not tenable ”.
Let us hope that Didier Raoult's prognosis is realized, given the extent of the damage that the Covid-19 has already caused.
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