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Coronavirus: overwhelmed doctors, distraught parents ... Colds disrupt the start of the school year
Doctors are inundated with requests from parents whose children with symptoms characteristic of benign nasopharyngitis are refused by school.
By Chlo? Hecketsweiler , Fran?ois B?guin and Violaine Morin Posted today at 06:02, updated at 15:04
It's a flood of "runny noses" and "small fevers" . Since the start of the week, the offices of general practitioners and pediatricians have been inundated with requests from parents whose children have not been accepted to nursery or school because they have these symptoms, characteristic of a benign nasopharyngitis, but possibly heralding a Covid-19.
"The rule is very clear: from the moment the pupil shows symptoms, he is kicked out of school and must return with a medical opinion, or else wait fourteen days" , explains Guislaine David, secretary general of SNUipp- FSU. This medical opinion is not necessarily a test result, which the school does not have the power to demand.
At SOS M?decins Dunkerque (Nord), Doctor Thierry Mraovic says he saw more than five times more children pass through his group practice on Monday, September 7 than the previous Monday: 110 against 20. “We finished at half past midnight, with an 8-year-old child who had a cold, ” he said, explaining that he refused to issue non-Covid-19 certificates.
Across the entire SOS M?decins network, the increase in activity for respiratory pathologies would be around 30% compared to 2019. “It is not easy for us to say whether it is a rhino. or Covid without testing, that puts us in a somewhat difficult situation, ” notes Serge Smadja, the secretary general of the organization.
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