How far are the days when the whole of France awaited feverishly every evening at 7 p.m. the precise reports of the epidemic situation drawn up by Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health (DGS).
Since then, the professor of medicine has been much more discreet: two press points in December (including one on Thursday evening), two others in November and that's about it.
More annoyingly, the Senate commission of inquiry accused him in early December of having lobbied long before the start of the Covid crisis, in February 2019, to modify an expert report recommending that the government have available a billion masks in the event of a pandemic, when he himself had only ordered 100 million.
Asked, Jérôme Salomon did not wish to answer our questions.
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At the heart of the turmoil, the DGS nonetheless remains clinging to his post, and his departure does not seem on the agenda according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
"He organized the health transfers
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