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At 48, Karim is in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Montreuil, just outside Paris, where he needs oxygen to help him breathe. He's unvaccinated, like almost all the patients in the hospital. And the hospital staff are tired of it.
Surges of COVID-19 patients are threatening to overwhelm hospitals across the nation. CNN reports at least 123,639 people across the country were in the hospital with the novel coronavirus on Saturday. The COVID Tracking Project says that marks the 32nd consecutive day that the number of hospitalizations has exceeded 100,000. Cases skyrocketed after the Thanksgiving holiday. The fallout form Christmas and New Year's celebrations are still unfolding. Johns Hopkins University data reveals that as of Saturday, more than 20.4 million people have been infected with the virus in the US. At least 350,186 people have died from the illness.
Mexico City, Dec 15 (EFE).- Hospitals treating Covid-19 patients in Mexico's capital are being pushed to the limits of their capacity, a state of affairs that is forcing some people to scramble to find an available bed for their loved ones.That was the experience of Virginia Mariela, who recently spent six hours searching for a hospital that would admit her sister. "It was horrible. We visited like seven hospitals," she told Efe on Tuesday. (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE VELA).SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS COLLECT SWAP SAMPLES FROM CITIZENS, FAMILY MEMBERS OF COVID-19 PATIENTS WAIT FOR UPDATES ON THEIR LOVED ONES AND PARAMEDICS TRANSFER A COVID-19 PATIENT TO A MEXICAN SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE HOSPITAL IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Hospitals in Paris and Montpellier have put some interventions on hold to free up space for COVID-19 as the country registered its six consecutive day with more than 10,000 new cases on Sunday.
Inundated with patients suffering from Covid-19, Bronchitis and the flu and with GPs on strike, wards are overflowing in many French hospitals, prompting unions to call for a walkout next Tuesday. At one hospital in Fréjus, in southern France, the emergency department is at double its normal capacity and doctors say patients are not getting the care they need as a result.
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