Should we reimpose the mask in transport, while the Covid-19 is exploding again in France?
According to the emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux, interviewed by BFM TV on Monday, a good part of the users do it “themselves”.
"You find that people put the mask back on themselves in transport and in crowd gatherings, because that's where the virus feasts and is spreading widely," he says. .
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Still, according to him, the movement must spread more widely among the population, because the number of cases of Covid-19 has exploded in recent weeks.
“There is this importance of putting the mask back on, of being tested if you have infectious syndromes, flu, it is important.
And if you are positive, isolate yourself, ”he recommends, on BFM TV, in a call for everyone’s responsibility.
"This is not the great drama that we experienced in February 2020"
The doctor remains in favor of an obligation, just like Alain Fischer, questioned on the question last Wednesday.
Putting the mask back on public transport is “probably reasonable, certainly for fragile people and probably for the whole population”, declared the immunologist and president of the Council for the orientation of the vaccine strategy.
The Covid-19 figures have really not been good for ten days.
The number of cases detected has increased by 50% in one week and the curve seems to be approaching an exponential more and more.
The trend has been upward for more than a month.
No more fever, gastric pain, loss of smell and taste... As the contamination curve starts to rise again, doctors notice that the symptoms are longer and more aggressive.
In question: BA.5, a little brother of Omicron.
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Patrick Pelloux reassures, if the 7th wave is well underway, it risks being much less dangerous than the previous ones, thanks to vaccines.
And should not trigger levels of restrictions like the French experienced in 2020 and 2021. “We know the disease, we know where we are going, we have the figures, it is not the great drama that we have experienced in February 2020. "We must not panic either," he summed up.
