in one year, hospitalizations have doubled in Marseille
In one year, almost to the day, the number of hospitalizations and people in intensive care has more than doubled, despite the mass vaccination campaign.
Let’s go back a year: around January 12, 2021, the prefect mentioned a curfew at 6 p.m. for the Bouches-du-Rhône, the incidence rate there was barely above 200 positive cases per 100,000 people (he exceeds 2,000 today). The restaurants were closed and the OM offered to lend the stadium to open the first vaccine park in Marseille.
In Marseille, hospitals counted 120 hospitalizations, including 31 people in intensive care.
One later the number of hospitalizations jumped to 263 including 71 people in shifts. Despite a vaccination rate of over 70% of the population.
The current figures, however, have not yet reached the peak of April 20, 2021: 357 hospitalizations including 102 resuscitations
In the Bouches-du-Rhône, here is the evolution over the past few months:
70 intensive care beds in Marseille
According to figures from the OECD, France has 6 intensive care beds per 1,000 inhabitants. Our country is in 10th place for endowments, behind Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic or even Russia, Korea and Japan (the most successful).
During the epidemic, when hospitals are under pressure, the ARS authorizes an increase in the number of intensive care beds, but to the detriment of other diseases, not Covid.
In terms of figures, the analysis of 2021 data shows that the occupancy rate of covid beds in hospitals remains high until the end of April 2021.
The months of May, June and July were calm, before an outbreak of hospitalization in August 2021, surely due to the mixing of school holidays.