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Facing new COVID wave, staff at a French hospital say: 'We're exhausted'

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The frustrating part for staff, she said, was this outcome could have been avoided if the same people had opted to get vaccinated. “Why all this mistrust towards the vaccine? I don’t understand.”

, slumped down onto her haunches against a wall of her department, exhausted by the prospect of tackling a new COVID-19 wave with a depleted staff.

In her office, Doctor Elisabeth Gaertner, who runs the intensive care service for Colmar’s public hospital system, reviews her list of people who are on sick leave: 4 out of 20 care assistants, 5 out of 15 cleaners, 5 out of 37 nurses in surgical intensive care. Doctor Eric Thibaud, who runs the Emergency Department at Colmar hospital, said 10% of his staff are on sick leave.

 

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