COVID-19 pandemic is a unique opportunity to reinvent the hospital

Abstract

The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis has deeply modified the functioning of French society. French public hospital, in first line facing this epidemic, was in crisis for several years and healthcare before the COVID-19’ crisis. In this Short Communication, we describe, how, despite these difficulties, a middle-sized hospital adapted both structurally and humanly, in a very fast and totally new way. We emphasize many individual and collective skills that ensured quality care for all patients, without our hospital ever being overwhelmed. We show, with this is example, that COVID-19 epidemic is a unique, and not to be missed, opportunity for the French public hospital to reinvent itself. Finally, the Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) secreted after the entry of these ECGS in the target cells, would perform, among other functions, that of second messengers of the viral message from abroad, defining the immune response of the receptor.