Daniel Da Silva, the head of Delafontaine’s intensive care unit, is hopeful he will never have to turn patients away. Half of the hospital’s Covid-19 patients are under 43 years of age, who are far down the waiting list for a vaccine being administered in descending order of age. “We had to intubate and carry out an emergency Caesarean on a young woman aged 23,” Da Silva says, calling it “unprecedented”. Like all hospitals in the Paris area, Delafontaine has been ordered to cut back surgery to make space for Covid patients. As France girds for a further curtailment of freedoms, Da Silva said he understood the toll on the economy and nation’s psychological wellbeing under stay-at-home orders.

Source: The Local March 31, 2021 12:45 UTC