According to Olivier Véran, the patients tested positive to the virus Covid-19 are more young people than at the peak of the outbreak in march. Doctors calls for respect of the gestures barriers to limit the movement of the virus.
signals of a recovery in epidemic are there, and a portion of the population is pointing the finger : the young. In an interview in Paris on Saturday evening, Olivier Veran has called for “vigilance” of less than 35 years facing the traffic of the Covid-19 in France.
“During the campaigns of mass screening,” we note “that the patients are young, more young people than at the previous wave. The rate of asymptomatic is “extremely high”, says the minister of Health. “This is especially the case in the Île-de-France where one sees the arrival of young people who have been infected without knowing how,” continues Olivier Véran.
To the minister and former doctor, “without a doubt, the vulnerable and the elderly have retained a level of caution was high for young people, they are less careful.” “This is what we find especially during festive gathering and especially family to the origin of clusters,” he asserts.
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More tests therefore more cases
If there is a release observed in the population, and particularly among the age groups who are less severely affected by the SARS-CoV-2, according to Yves Buisson, a member of the Academy of medicine contacted by The Express, the increase in the number of cases among young people is mainly explained by the acceleration and widespread screening.
“Before, we only tested that the sick who needed to be hospitalized, and therefore necessarily older people, was not tested slightly ill or asymptomatic. Today we test a lot more massively, ” he explains. There is no element that allows us to say that the virus attack on the young today than before.”
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If the screening is widespread, it is still insufficient, the judge, the professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, chief of the department of infectious diseases at the Bichat hospital and a member of the scientific council contacted by The Express. It argues that more should be done to test the people, and especially young people. “At the slightest symptom or doubt, it is necessary to take the test, it is essential to refit the chains of transmission and control the epidemic,” he says.
These cases remain mostly mild forms of the virus. “There are no more hospitalizations of young people”, says Yazdan Yazdanpanah. However, some patients with diabetes or obesity, are more likely to be affected most severely, and to be hospitalized. As obesity progresses in France”. According to the latest figures of the Directorate for research, studies, evaluation and statistics (DREES) published in 2019, a teenager in five is overweight, and 3.8% of youth are obese.
A loosening risky
But this is mostly for other than the progression of the virus in the young people concerned. Because if older people “are still being cautious, wear a mask, keep their distance, young people are much less attention,” notes Yves Buisson. “Public health in France and the health Insurance observe a relaxation of the application of gestures barriers, which translates into an increase in the number of contacts at-risk patient Covid-19, and a lesser membership in the detachment physics in particular,” warning to the health authority.
“The young adults are as much infected as the other, and perhaps even more because they are more exposed to the virus, they are the ones who go to the gatherings, the feasts, the marriages,” adds the member of the Academy of medicine. Many new foci of infections have been detected after family gatherings.
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And, once infected, they will transmit the virus, creating new hotbeds of contamination and participate in the spread of the virus. “They must observe measures barriers as well as the other, and to wear the mask, because they are vectors of the virus, starting with the family, he insists. It is, above all, to protect the other we wear the mask”.
lack of communication
But for Yves Buisson, this release is accompanied of a certain state of mind visible within this age group since the end of the confinement. With the return to a normal life, the reopening of restaurants, bars, cinemas, the people least at risk were able to estimate that the epidemic was over.
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The member of the Academy of medicine points to the responsibility of the government and the poor crisis communication. “It should be a lot firmer on the motions of the barriers, the communication is too low, too progressive, they will almost backwards”, he complained, making particular allusion to the confusion around the date of the 1st of August to make the mask mandatory in enclosed public places. Yves Buisson argues, to him, to make the mask mandatory everywhere in public places in urban areas, where the population is dense.
“we need to be more severe in injunctions, if we appeal to their sense of respresponsibilities of each, it only affects those who are already convinced”, he argues. According to him, then there is a cap to cross”, “in the contrary case, there is a risk of having to reconfiner at least partially the population, or even totally, which would be a disaster”. “Young people are smart, the problem is communication,” slice there yet.
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Yazdan Yazdanpanah holds the same discourse, and argues that there is a need for more communication on the importance of screening. “People are afraid to be tested positive and being put in quarantine, it is necessary to fight against it,” he insists. In stressing that in order to test better, it will also increase the supply of tests, which it considers “insufficient” today.
