“
We will win
” against the Covid-19, but we will have to be patient.
For Jean-François Delfraissy, guest of BFMTV and RMC on Friday July 23, “
the return to normal is perhaps 2022, 2023
”.
If he does not know what tomorrow will bring, the president of the Scientific Council estimates that "
we will probably have another variant which will arrive in the course of the winter
", because the SARS-CoV-2 "
has the capacities of mutation. extraordinary
”.
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In this context, Jean-François Delfraissy calls for “
returning to barrier measures
” such as washing hands and wearing a mask, including outdoors, because of the contagiousness of the variant.
Vaccinated for several weeks, he "
continues to wear the mask
" too.
The professor fears 50,000 new daily contaminations in early August on average.
According to him, “
there is no quick fix
” to the Delta variant.
In recent days, clusters have been detected in nightclubs, in Bordeaux and elsewhere in Europe. Jean-François Delfraissy therefore called for caution in these places. If the young people validate the health pass by being vaccinated or with a negative PCR test, “going
to a disco is possible
” but “
we are careful
”, he recalls.
The doctor does not question the reopening of nightclubs. "
We could have closed or reopened everything, that would not have changed anything
", because of the peculiarities of the Delta virus. The question, according to him, is to know "
up to what point
" one should go in these reopenings (which gauges? Which places? Which events?). For him, the sanitary pass, of which he validates the principle and the application, will help us “
even if it is not 100% effective
” in preventing transmission and contamination.