Abstract
In March 2020, a week after the first lockdown in France, during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the French Society of Digestive Endoscopy (Société Française d’Endoscopie Digestive, SFED) sent gastroenterologists practicing endoscopy a web-based survey that included 35 questions about their endoscopic activity during 1 week [1]. The survey concluded that 91 % of the endoscopies were cancelled, and underscored the poor level of personal protective equipment (PPE) available, with difficulties obtaining masks reported by 14 % of respondents and 57 % of endoscopies eventually performed without a mask. In addition, 13 % of the respondents reported symptoms compatible with COVID-19 and 2 % had a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for it.
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