Summary

In Week 14 (April 5–11, 2021), total activity at SOS Médecins clinics decreased among 2- to 14-year-olds (-21%, or 4,032 fewer visits), remained stable among children under 2, and increased among those aged 15 and older (+5.6%, or 2,745 more visits).

In Week 14, medical procedures for suspected COVID-19 across all age groups declined, following three weeks of increases and one week of stabilization. In total, 3,672 cases were recorded (vs. 3,920 cases in Week 13; a decrease of 6.3%), and the share of total activity across all age groups remained stable at 5.3% (versus 5.5% in Week 13). By age group, these procedures are down among children: -49% among 2- to 14-year-olds (i.e., -318 procedures) and -25% among children under 2 years old (i.e., -13 procedures), and stable among those aged 15 and older (+3%, i.e., +95 procedures). Suspected COVID-19 is the second most common diagnosis among those aged 15–74. At the regional level, medical procedures for suspected COVID-19 are stable or declining in all regions except Corsica (+39%, or +10 visits) and Centre-Val de Loire (+30%, or +23 visits). Since monitoring began on March 3, 2020, 205,799 procedures for suspected COVID-19 have been performed.

Among other indicators, for children aged 2–14, a marked decline is observed in all indicators, in the context of school closures, with the exception of chickenpox (+13%, including among children under 2). This decline is not observed in other age groups. Among adults, in fact, most of the most common diagnoses are on the rise, notably low back pain/sciatica (+10%, or +267 cases), urinary tract infections among those aged 15–74 (+11%, or +172 cases), and deaths among those aged 75 and older (+15%, or +53 cases). Also notable among those aged 15 and older is the increase in cases for vomiting (+13%, or +47 cases) and asthma (+6%, or +27 cases), and, specifically among those aged 75 and older, for isolated fever (+26%, or +29 cases) and gastroenteritis (+28%, or +34 cases). Among children under 2 years of age, there was a marked increase in cases of trauma (+62%) and diarrhea (+48%), while bronchiolitis appears to be declining (-5%, or -24 cases).