Last week, the executive prepared the French for the worst.
The imminence of the peak of the second wave was to be accompanied by a boom in hospitalizations and the number of patients in intensive care units, and especially an explosion in the number of deaths.
While a first assessment of the effects of containment must be presented this Thursday, the government was trying to strike people, mobilize the country, make it aware of the gravity of the situation.
Alas, a few words spoken by the Minister of Health on Sunday shattered the strategy of dramatization.
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At the microphone of France Inter, Olivier Véran spoke for the first time of a
"thrill"
and
"a form of slowing down"
in the progression of the epidemic
.
From there to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel?
“The account is not there at all.
We must not give the impression of an improvement, ”
corrects a close friend of the Prime Minister.
The Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, who will now speak
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