French coronavirus death tally much higher than official data - hospitals chief

 

A medical biologist, wearing a protective suit, swabs a driver?s nose at a drive-through testing site for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a parking lot in front of a laboratory in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, France, March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

 

PARIS (Reuters) - The death toll in France from coronavirus is much higher than the daily government tally, which only accounts for those dying in hospitals, a senior French health official said on Wednesday.

 

France reported a cumulative 1,100 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, up from 91 on March 14, a more than tenfold increase in 11 days and an average increase of 28% per day, data tracked by Reuters shows.

 

"We only know the data provided by hospitals," Frederic Valletoux, president of the French Hospitals Federation, said on France Info radio.

 

"The increase in the official data is already major, but the absolute numbers would no doubt be effectively much higher if we aggregated what is happening in retirement homes as well as the people who die at home or who are not counted."

 

Health agency chief Jerome Salomon said on Tuesday that authorities would soon be able to tally retirement home deaths, which is likely to result in a big increase in registered fatalities.

 

French media have reported dozens of coronavirus fatalities in retirement homes, with up to 15 dead in just one institution in eastern France. Le Monde reported 39 deaths in retirement homes in the Ile-de-France region around Paris on Monday and said that privately run homes were reluctant to report data.

 

Valletoux said it was difficult to say when the growth rate of new infections and deaths would slow down and whether France was indeed running about eight days behind Italy, the country with the highest death tally from the virus.

 

"Confinement and testing procedures are very different in the two countries, even between regions in Italy," he said.

 

In France, which instituted a nationwide lockdown on March 17, the number of new infections grew at an average rate of 26% per day throughout March, but on Tuesday the rate has slowed dow to an average 15%.

 

"We do not know when the peak will come, but we are still in the ascending phase," Valletoux said.

 

He also said the number of infections was hard to compare with other countries as France does not test as many people as neighbouring countries.

 

"We don't have the means to test everyone...Italy tests way more people, and the Germans test 10 to 20 times more people than us," he said.

 

Health agency chief Salomon said on Tuesday France would soon be able to conduct 10,000 tests a day.

 

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That's the reverse of Thai road deaths then. They only count those that died not in hospitals.

Stats are generally useless as most countries do not/can not do enough tests for a meaningful analysis.

Whether created by accident or design, this highly-contageous virus which selectively kills off mostly the aged and unhealthy, sounds like an evil eugenicist's dream come true.

 

Just saying.

Hope he is wrong but unfortunately all these numbers are probably less than the reality.

Look!!!  Covid is gonna run it's course and kill a lot, accept it like death - we are ALL gonna die eventually...Nobody is getting out alive okay....so chill out and be grateful for thailand, enjoy the life you got...

4 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Whether created by accident or design, this highly-contageous virus which selectively kills off mostly the aged and unhealthy, sounds like an evil eugenicist's dream come true.

 

Just saying.

If created by design it would kill much more, like Ebola. It is just like other diseases in the past ( Spanish flue with 20-100 mln casualties 1918-1920) just a repeat.

But.. think of mega-cities with quite some people, who can NOT afford to stop working for a week or so, have no money to have access to medical care, like in Krung Thep, Jakarta, in India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh, Africa, Latin America and the USA: this virus is here to STAY !

Maybe, when Corona and Ebola meet each other in Africa, to mutate to Ebona or Corola: Then we can be in real trouble.

Now I got to worry about how many Paquin and bats in the wilds of China still have the virus and if they'l ever be virus free. 

On 3/26/2020 at 12:06 PM, Krataiboy said:

Whether created by accident or design, this highly-contageous virus which selectively kills off mostly the aged and unhealthy, sounds like an evil eugenicist's dream come true.

 

Just saying.

Very interesting, but not true...

It is getting like monty python where they call out,

"bring out your dead"

4 hours ago, Aachen said:

Very interesting, but not true...

Sorry, what's not true? 

On 3/26/2020 at 1:06 AM, Krataiboy said:

Whether created by accident or design, this highly-contageous virus which selectively kills off mostly the aged and unhealthy, sounds like an evil eugenicist's dream come true.

 

Just saying.

 

Sounds a lot like what happens when any species becomes over populated. When deer no longer have a natural predator they usually get a disease when their numbers are way too high.