Overview
- Regional health authorities confirmed 16 infants were moved from Île‑de‑France to other regions since mid‑October, including two over the weekend, with six transfers unrelated to hospital pressure and the rest tied to local tensions or proximity.
- Île‑de‑France, Normandie and Hauts‑de‑France are among the hardest‑hit areas, while Corsica remains the only mainland region still pre‑epidemic, according to Santé publique France.
- During the week of November 24–30, roughly 3,000 infants under one visited emergency departments for bronchiolitis and 974 were hospitalized, reflecting a rising nationwide burden.
- Frontline services report strain, with Paris’s Robert‑Debré pediatrics unit at full occupancy and Île‑de‑France seeing weekly emergency increases of 7.4% for under‑twos and 9.7% for under‑ones.
- Prevention tools are in place—Beyfortus for infants and Abrysvo for maternal immunization—yet uptake remains uneven despite evidence suggesting around an 80% reduction in hospitalization risk for protected babies.