So the virus has been circulating well for a long time, but we were told the opposite
The head of the intensive care unit at Bondy Hospital says he welcomed a patient with Covid-19 in late December.
Did a patient admitted to intensive care at the end of December at Jean-Verdier hospital in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) have Covid-19, when the first official cases date from the end of January? This was affirmed this Sunday by Professor Yves Cohen, head of the resuscitation service at Jean-Verdier hospitals in Bondy, and Avicenne in Bobigny.
"Based on an idea from Jean-Ralph Zahar, who is our professor of hygiene, we took over all the PCRs that had been tested in patients who had pneumonia in December and in January whose diagnosis was negative. Of the 24 patients, we had one that was positive at Covid-19, on December 27, when he was hospitalized with us, at Jean-Verdier, "explained Yves Cohen on BFMTV.
PCR, it should be remembered, is a molecular biology technique of genetic amplification, which makes it possible to search for a biological sample for the presence of a DNA or RNA sequence. In hospital, it is used in particular to diagnose various viral infections. The patient mentioned by Professor Cohen had notably been tested for influenza.
Contamination assumptions
The man, said the doctor, was called back by the team. "He was sick for 15 days and infected his two children, but not his wife, who works in a supermarket, at a fish stall. We wondered if it was not related to fish of Chinese origin, but she only works on French products. " The patient had not traveled and "did not understand how he was infected". Possible explanation sketched by Professor Cohen: alongside his wife would work "people of Chinese origin". "One wonders if it has not been achieved asymptomatically." The patient and his family are now in good health.
The new test was performed twice, and was positive both times. "This patient had Covid-19 on December 27, 2019", asserts the doctor. So far, officially the disease only appeared in France in January 2020. On Friday January 24, the then Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, had confirmed that three cases had been diagnosed in Bordeaux and Paris. Two of them had traveled to Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic, before coming to Paris, and the third was a close relative of one of them.
The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency "has been warned," said Yves Cohen, and a scientific publication is planned "next week in the International journal of antimicrobial agents". The doctor called on other virologists to also test "negative PCRs from the same period".
Un patient atteint du coronavirus fin décembre à Bondy?
The head of the intensive care unit at Bondy Hospital says he welcomed a patient with Covid-19 in late December.
Did a patient admitted to intensive care at the end of December at Jean-Verdier hospital in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) have Covid-19, when the first official cases date from the end of January? This was affirmed this Sunday by Professor Yves Cohen, head of the resuscitation service at Jean-Verdier hospitals in Bondy, and Avicenne in Bobigny.
"Based on an idea from Jean-Ralph Zahar, who is our professor of hygiene, we took over all the PCRs that had been tested in patients who had pneumonia in December and in January whose diagnosis was negative. Of the 24 patients, we had one that was positive at Covid-19, on December 27, when he was hospitalized with us, at Jean-Verdier, "explained Yves Cohen on BFMTV.
PCR, it should be remembered, is a molecular biology technique of genetic amplification, which makes it possible to search for a biological sample for the presence of a DNA or RNA sequence. In hospital, it is used in particular to diagnose various viral infections. The patient mentioned by Professor Cohen had notably been tested for influenza.
Contamination assumptions
The man, said the doctor, was called back by the team. "He was sick for 15 days and infected his two children, but not his wife, who works in a supermarket, at a fish stall. We wondered if it was not related to fish of Chinese origin, but she only works on French products. " The patient had not traveled and "did not understand how he was infected". Possible explanation sketched by Professor Cohen: alongside his wife would work "people of Chinese origin". "One wonders if it has not been achieved asymptomatically." The patient and his family are now in good health.
The new test was performed twice, and was positive both times. "This patient had Covid-19 on December 27, 2019", asserts the doctor. So far, officially the disease only appeared in France in January 2020. On Friday January 24, the then Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, had confirmed that three cases had been diagnosed in Bordeaux and Paris. Two of them had traveled to Wuhan, the cradle of the epidemic, before coming to Paris, and the third was a close relative of one of them.
The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency "has been warned," said Yves Cohen, and a scientific publication is planned "next week in the International journal of antimicrobial agents". The doctor called on other virologists to also test "negative PCRs from the same period".
Un patient atteint du coronavirus fin décembre à Bondy?
