PARIS – When French President Emmanuel Macron holds his coronavirus strategy meeting this week, some of the figures at his disposal from overburdened hospitals will show why doctors are bracing for the possibility of unprecedented misery from rampaging infections.
Internal projections by the Paris public hospitals authority, some of which were seen by The Associated Press, suggest that intensive care units in the region of 12 million people may soon have to find space for more critically ill patients than ever.
Nationwide, the number of ICU patients has already eclipsed the levels of France’s last deadly surge i n autumn. Increasingly, hospital indicators suggest that this new surge risks becoming the worst one yet, raising the pressure on