(FILES) A nurse tends to a Covid-19 patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Delafontaine AP-HP hospital in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on December 29, 2021. Five years on, the shock of Covid-19 is still being felt in the French healthcare system, which has been profoundly shaken despite the resilience it has shown. In hospitals, while the pandemic filled intensive care wards, it also emptied other departments, with a 6.7% fall in hospital activity in 2020 in volume terms, which took a long time to recover. While private clinics have returned to pre-Covid levels of activity by 2022, the situation in public hospitals has not yet fully recovered. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)