COVID in France in December? Will be interesting if true.
Professor Yves Cohen affirms that a patient had Covid-19 in France from December 27
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This head of resuscitation at several hospitals in Ile-de-France resumed PCR tests carried out on several patients suffering from pneumonia between December and January last. A man, now in good health, has been identified as carrying the Covid-19.
What if the coronavirus has been present on French territory for longer than expected? Invited this Sunday on the set of BFMTV, Professor Yves Cohen, head of the resuscitation service of Avicenne hospitals in Bobigny, and Jean Verdier in Bondy, in Seine-Saint-Denis, ensures that the first traces of the disease could in fact go back to at least last December 27. Nearly a month before the detection of the first officially registered cases in France, at the end of January.
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"We resumed all the PCRs tested in patients with pneumonia in December and January whose results were negative. The PCRs are not made for Covid-19, but for influenza and other coronaviruses. And out of the 24 patients, we had a positive case at Covid-19, on December 27, when he was hospitalized with us, at Jean Verdier ", he assured.
The asymptomatic patient's wife?
After ensuring that the tests had been carried out several times "to eliminate the risks", Yves Cohen explained that he had carried out an investigation in order to trace this first contamination.
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"We called the patient. He was sick 15 days and he infected his two children, but not his wife, who works in a supermarket, at the fish stall. We wondered if there were not related to fish of Chinese origin, but it only works on French products, "he said.
Then, the professor later assured that he had found a potential lead.
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"Then we learn by chance that she (the patient's wife, editor's note) works alongside sushi sales or people of Chinese origin work. One wonders if she has not been reached asymptomatically. cannot go any further, but I think it is up to another institution to carry out the investigations. ", he adds.
Patient 0?
This discovery could also inform the search for patient 0, the first contaminated with Covid-19, on French territory.
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"He may be the zero patient, but perhaps there are others in other regions. All the negative PCRs for pneumonia must be retested. The virus was probably circulating," he said. it again.
At present, the patient in good health, as well as his children, who had also been infected.
"He was amazed, he did not understand how he had been infected. We put the puzzle together, he had not made any trips, the only contact is that made by his wife" concludes Yves Cohen.
