Covid-19: "Containment was the only solution then possible to limit the number of deaths"

The implementation of the containment strategy on March 17 was the confirmation of a failure. A defeat for France in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic that befell us. The successive rout of the three lines of defense that we hoped was sufficient: first avoid the installation of a focus of the virus on our territory, then, if it settles, prevent its expansion, finally if the virus spreads to throughout the territory, cut the chains of transmission by identifying and isolating cases. SARS-CoV-2 thwarted these plans.

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Contrary to what WHO thought at the start of the crisis, and unlike its cousins ​​(SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV), the chains of transmission of this new coronavirus could be "silent". Infected people could transmit the virus without showing symptoms, rendering any border screening strategy ineffective. Once on the territory, the virus continued to advance masked, signaling its presence by the hospitalizations it caused

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