Résumé
On the 1st of April 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron decided a new nation-wide lockdown to slow down the contamination rate (> 30 000 cases per day) and prevent an overwhelming of ICU capacities. At this date, in addition to non-COVID-19 patients, 5,109 COVID-19 patients were treated in ICUs across the country, while only 5,080 adult ICU beds were officially registered in the country at the end of 2019 by the “Direction de la Recherche, des Études de l’Évaluation et des Statistiques”