THE QUESTION.
" The improvidence of the French government and administration has been total in this affair ." Himself infected with the coronavirus and confined, Doctor Jean-Paul Hamon, president of the Federation of Doctors of France (FMF) did not take heart Sunday, about the masks which the whole country is sorely lacking. In recent days, the state has only had 86 million masks, 5 million of which are FFP2. The needs, as the country sinks a little more each day into the crisis, would be 24 million masks each week. The low stocks also prohibit any distribution to the population, while this policy has proven its worth especially in Hong Kong, both to limit the victims and to avoid general confinement.
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A few years ago, such a strategy would have been possible: in 2009, the total number of FFP2 masks reached, according to a Senate report, some 579,691,625 units. For the masks
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