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Usually when the region where you live receive international coverage, you’re pretty happy it Sadly, I would prefer my region to receive attention for different reasons 😔 washingtonpost.com/world/spread-of-s-african-variant-in-eastern-france-triggers-calls-to-suspend-astrazeneca-vaccine-rollout-to-health-workers/2021/02/16/162f8932-7060-11eb-8651-6d3091eac63f_story.html
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Nancy is 25 kilometers south of Moselle and our hospital is already receiving patients from Moselle because Moselle’s incidence rate is not looking good – at all (Nancy is in Meurthe-et-Moselle) projects.aleryon.science/covid-19/#taux-dincidence
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A lot of local elected officials from Moselle are asking the central government to do a local lockdown to tame the incidence rate But the government said no And because France is way too centralized, there’s nothing they can do
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Mathieu Klein, the mayor of Nancy I ran the election with, is also asking for a local lockdown *since Christmas* "No, no and no" was the only answer And now our hospital has to cancel appointments and effectively deny patients healthcare to take care of COVID-19 patients
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I know COVID-19 is a shitshow in the US, and it’s overall probably less bad in Europe But it’s **far** from being perfect Here too it reveals the societal and (in this case) political fractures and weaknesses that were kind of dormant for years
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So far the south-African strain in Moselle has been contained, but for how long? The part of Moselle where it is spreading (Moselle-Est) was already very severely hit during the first wave in April Nobody knows how this strain ended up in Moselle-Est