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“I don’t see how it can start over. Three quarters of an hour of toxic stop is too much. It has to stop. I had his son. ” The head of the intensive care unit at Argenteuil Hospital takes a break. The emergency medical team understood. One of the fifteen Covid patients in the Madeleine-Bres pavilion, a 58-year-old man, hospitalized on November 7 in critical condition, is lost. In a monotone voice, Dr. Gaëtan Plantefeve recounts the infernal succession of organic failures that, from 3 am, have kept resuscitators in abeyance: bradycardia, pulmonary embolism, severe hypoxemia leading to heart failure. In the broadcast room, no one reacts. In the sterilized in-between worlds of intensive care, a death is not an event. Much less since this spring of a galloping epidemic in the dense and impoverished districts of the sub-prefecture of Val-d’Oise: of the hundred intubated to the hospital of Argenteuil between March and May, about forty remained
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