This photograph shows an ambulance of Paris' SAMU (Paris Ambulance Service) stationed outside the entrance of the Saint-Antoine hospital emergency department following France's Health Minister's visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint-Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors of Paris' SAMU (Paris Ambulance Service) arrange medical equipment onboard an ambulance following France's Health Minister's visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

A doctor of Paris' SAMU (Paris Ambulance Service) loads a stretcher onto an ambulance following France's Health Minister's visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

This photograph shows a sign reading "Urgences" translating to "emergency" during France's Health Minister's visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

This photograph shows an entrance sign reading "Urgences" translating to "emergency" during France's Health Minister's visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

France's Health Minister Stephanie Rist addresses the media following a visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

France's Health Minister Stephanie Rist addresses the media following a visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)

France's Health Minister Stephanie Rist (C) addresses the media flanked by General Manager of the Saint-Antoine Hospital Nicolas Revel (L) and Saint-Antoine's Head of the emergency department's admissions service doctor Pierre Alexis Raynal following a visit to the emergency wards at the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Saint Antoine's hospital, in Paris on January 8, 2026, as France battles with a flu wave. (Photo by Kiran RIDLEY / AFP via Getty Images)