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"We must come back to barrier gestures": Jean-François Delfraissy's point

2021-07-22T14:36:17.846Z


During a speech in the Senate, the President of the Scientific Council warned about the relaxation of the French in the face of barrier gestures


"I am always the bearer of bad news", conceded Jean-François Delfraissy.

However, this did not prevent the Chairman of the Scientific Council from banging his fist on the table.

In front of the senators, the immunologist did not go by four ways to clarify things concerning the barrier gestures.

According to him, these gestures have “totally exploded”.

The doctor calls to come back to it as quickly as possible.

He also attributes, in part, the epidemic rebound to the relaxation observed for several weeks.

The president of the scientific council Jean-François #Delfraissy foresees a "very complex situation" by the end of August concerning hospitalizations.

# DirectSénat # Covid19 pic.twitter.com/QW7PK25FxN

- Public Senate (@publicsenat) July 22, 2021

He also said he was in favor of wearing a mask even outdoors, thus taking the opposite view of what he had said at the beginning of June.

“With this variant, you can clearly get infected on the outside,” he said.

According to him, a possible return of this measure “would not fundamentally affect republican values”.

He would like it to be applied to vaccinated people as well.

"We are on something long"

If Jean-François Delfraissy expressed himself in this way, it is because of the concern and pessimism he displays in the face of the epidemic situation.

“The Delta variant has a transmission level 60 times higher.

But I don't think people understood what that represents, ”he announced.

The President of the Scientific Council indicated that the application of the sanitary pass "will not fundamentally change the response to the fourth wave" since it is already well established, according to the doctor who speaks of a "very complex" situation. for the rest of the summer.

“We're on something long.

We have to start with a long-term vision even if it is difficult to hear, ”he said.

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He also spoke about the future prospects for the epidemic evolution.

According to him, there are two scenarios.

Either the virus has a limited mutation capacity in which case "we could have another variant in a year, the final variant", or the virus generates an "immune escape variant" which, in practice, would require the development of other vaccines to overcome Covid-19.

Finally, he said he does not believe in treatments to overcome the fourth wave and prefers to focus on vaccination.

For him, vaccination coverage should be "close to 95%".

Source: leparis

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