Health, still health, still health ... For almost two years, humanity has been living at the pace of the Covid-19 pandemic: confinements, masks, vaccines, controversies ... In October 2020, as part of its latest Big Bang Santé,
Le Figaro
plunged into this unprecedented crisis, with the ambition to provide reflections, analyzes and clarifications on an epidemic that has destabilized our societies to their very foundations.
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Over time, new questions have arisen.
Some, specific to France after its failure to develop a vaccine.
Others, cross all societies such as the care of the elderly and the place of vaccines in care.
During three mornings punctuated by debates, reports, interviews, and through testimonies from researchers, ministers, doctors, entrepreneurs, adventurers,
Le Figaro will
shed light on these upheavals in the world of health.
Big bang of medical research
The first part of this Big Bang is precisely devoted to medical research. A century and a half after the work of Pasteur, one could have imagined the French laboratories leading the pack in the vaccine race. But it is not. The delays have highlighted the weakening of scientific research in France and the deficiency of our health industries. Many researchers have sounded the alarm for many years. Chronic failure of investment, “brain drain”, crisis in the university system, time-consuming administrative tasks… So many causes at the origin of this French disease.
So what prescription to save medical research?
Can the Pays de Pasteur become a pharmaceutical power again?
Doctors and health experts will provide their answers during this first morning.
Big Bang of old age
Our second Big Bang addresses old age.
Population aging is already a reality.
The proportion of people aged 85 and over is expected to triple by 2050 to reach five million French people.
This phenomenon raises questions.
How to finance the care of the elderly?
Will governments finally succeed in adopting a “dependency law” that meets the challenges?
Another challenge, and not the least, is the support of the elderly thanks to new technologies.
What innovations will allow aging well at home?
Vaccine big bang
This meeting will end with the Big Bang of the vaccine, the weapon of massive protection against Covid-19.
How does this disruptive technology, the famous messenger RNA, work?
Is it
"the revolution"
of the century, as announced last year in
Le Figaro
, Stéphane Bancel, the boss of the American biotech Moderna?
Many scientists predict a fantastic fate for him: one day, to cure pathologies such as cancer.
A hypothesis that prompts us to ask ourselves: how far will the vaccine impose itself in our societies?
Health experts will decipher this emerging new world with the editorial staff.
Forward!
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