Covid-19: the screening strategy scrutinized

In the health crisis, one shortage can hide another. If the masks failed at the fateful moment, so did the tests. And it took a massive mobilization in the middle of a pandemic to enlist all the players in the sector and raise the bar before the end of containment. Thursday, the National Assembly's commission of inquiry into the health crisis received the man at the heart of this race against time. Current deputy director to the director general of the APHP, Nicolas Castoldi, was with Jean Castex, from the end of March to July 15, the coordinator of the Covid-19 screening strategy. This senior official is careful to specify that he cannot shed light on the period preceding his appointment, in other words the beginnings of the pandemic. But, hollow, his words highlight the initial confusion.

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Nicolas Castoldi first of all underlined that the number of tests carried out per week has increased from 100,000 at the end of March to 500,000 today with a capacity that can reach

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