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“A turning point”: five years ago, a first patient died of COVVI-19 in France

In February 2020, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist became the first victim of the COVVI-19 in France. The Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Bichat Hospital, Dr. Yazdan Yazdanpanah, says this “turning point.”

It was five years ago. During the night of February 14 to 15, 2020, a person would die of the COVVI-19 in France for the first time. He was an 80 -year -old Chinese tourist, one of the first three patients diagnosed in the country. With liberation, Dr. Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of infectious diseases at the Bichat Hospital, where this patient was hospitalized.

The scientists had received Wuhan alerts, China, where the first cases were identified. “When Covid’s first cases arrived in France, I was not surprised,” said Yazdan Yazdanpanah.

“Alerts, we receive it all the time (…) just at this time, in the NERS emerging from infectious diseases, we follow five epidemics and it is not always easy to do things,” he said, recognizing, however, that, that, that, that, which However, he acknowledges that he “underestimated the proportion that the epidemic would take it.”

“His death was very difficult to live”

The daughter of this 80 -year -old patient was also hospitalized at Bichat Hospital at the same time as her father. “I expected people who had traveled to China declared in France,” said Yazdan Yazdanpanah. The doctor knew that the Sras “had treated patients at the Lille Chu” during the 2003 epidemic.

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When these first patients in COVID-19 were treated on January 24, 2020, they are hospitalized and isolated to avoid pollution. It is of this isolation that Dr. Yazdan Yazdanpanah recalls particularly.

“His death was very difficult to live. The whole team had done everything possible to save him. It was the first death of this disease in France and marked a turning point,” he told Liberation.

“We feel helpless and sadness to see him die in isolation. His daughter was hospitalized in the same hospital, but he could not be close to him. It is very difficult to die in such conditions,” he describes, believing that “a big problem of this pandemic “

More than seven million dead people

For this doctor, one of the difficulties was to understand “that the disease was not only transmitted when the infected person was symptomatic, but two to three days before.”

“This is a big difference with the Sras virus and completely changes the propagation potential of the epidemic,” he said.

He said the scientists were sure of the transmission of the virus even in the absence of symptoms only in March. “This is where we had a real awareness of the potential magnitude of the epidemic. Understanding it would probably have changed things,” he said.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than seven million people died of COVID-19 in the world. A very underestimated figure. In France, the organization lists 168,000 deaths.

Author: Salome Robles
Source: BFM TV

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