Professor Didier Raoult no longer rules out a second wave. The doctor at the IHU in Marseille, at the heart of the controversy surrounding hydroxychloroquine as a treatment with Covid-19, has reversed his previous predictions and is now considering the seasonal return to the epidemic.
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"No one is able to predict the future ," he said this time in a video posted on the establishment's YouTube channel. [...] there may be a new epidemic peak in at the time of the winter-spring season, it may disappear, it will depend on the distribution in the inter-tropical zone and on the fact that there will be people who will be chronic carriers ” .
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A new predictive analysis that contradicts his much sharper comments from May 12. Professor Raoult then explained, still on video, that " Nowhere is there a second wave, or the back of a camel . " " The epidemic is coming to an end, " he said. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran had denounced media outings "not very responsible".