Michel Cymes goes to the front. The favorite doctor of the French will offer Tuesday March 3 at 9:05 pm on France 2 a special evening live to answer questions from the French on the coronavirus.
"The main idea will be to explain, to reassure, to give clear information by answering all the questions asked", specifies Emmanuel Chain, director of Eléphant et Cie, who co-produces the program. “The French appreciate Michel Cymes for his pedagogy. He is very comfortable live on television. We are making a promise of accessibility, to make this complex subject as broad as possible for the general public, ”he adds.
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For more than two hours, viewers will be able to question specialists on the set via SMS questions, to which Michel Cymes, Professor Eric Caumes, head of service at Pitié-Salpêtrière, and his colleague Arnaud Fontanet, epidemiologist at the Pasteur Institute, will respond. . Several researchers are also expected, in particular from Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research), to tackle the identification of the virus or take stock of treatments. "We will have a strong journalistic and medical guarantee," says Emmanuel Chain.
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Host Jamy Gourmaud, familiar face of France 3 viewers and the youngest (“Le Monde de Jamy”, “C'est pas sorcier”), will participate in the evening from the Pasteur Institute, from which he will dissect the scientific research on the virus and a potential vaccine.
The show, filmed from France Televisions studios, will take place in public, where medical students will take place, but also citizens who will ask their questions. Decided on February 26 and mounted at high speed, the program will replace the originally scheduled replay of an issue of "Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body". Produced by Elephant et Cie, 17 Juin Média (“Le Journal de la santé”) and Kiosco.tv, the program will be produced by Tristan Carné and will offer a survey on the French and the coronavirus.