Critical care doctors in Paris say surging coronavirus infections could soon overwhelm their ability to care for the sick in the French capital's hospitals, possibly forcing them to choose which patients they have the resources to treat.
The sobering warning was delivered Sunday in a newspaper opinion signed by 41 Paris-region doctors.
Published by Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, it comes as French President Emmanuel Macron has been vigorously defending his decision not to completely lockdown France again as he did last year. Since January, Macron's government has instead imposed a nationwide overnight curfew and followed that with a grab-bag of other restrictions.
But with infections soaring and hospitals increasingly running short of intensive care beds, doctors have been stepping up the pressure for a full French lockdown...
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Dans une tribune publiée dimanche par le JDD, 41 directeurs médicaux de crise de l'Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris évoquent une "situation de médecine de catastrophe", disant se préparer à devoir "faire un tri des patients afin de sauver le plus de vies possibles".
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