B Acad Nat Med Paris
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B Acad Nat Med Paris · Oct 2022
[Management of the COVID-19 epidemic in the carrier battle group (January - April 2020) by the Armed Forces Epidemiology and Public Health Center].
Faced with the COVID-19 epidemic that occurred within the naval air group and the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the French Armed Forces Epidemiology and Public Health Center (CESPA) carried out an investigation (January - April 2020) whose objectives were: to identify the possible routes of introduction of the virus ; to describe the characteristics of the epidemic and to describe and model the dynamics of the epidemic's spread. ⋯ Despite the control measures taken, an epidemic occurred. The often pauci-symptomatic clinical pictures resulted in a delay in identification. CESPA was able to carry out this epidemiological investigation within a highly constrained timeframe, showing all the interest of its integrated public health model.