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"Children are the collateral victims of the epidemic"

2021-03-31T20:34:43.690Z


INTERVIEW - Children are not seriously affected by the virus, but their social and friendly life, essential to their development, is cut off, believes child psychiatrist Anne Sénéquier.


Anne Sénéquier is a psychiatrist and researcher at Iris, where she heads the Observatory for Global Health.

LE FIGARO.

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"It is a chance for France to have had its schools open from September to today"

, declared Jean-Michel Blanquer, yesterday to the National Assembly.

Do you share his point of view?

Anne SÉNÉQUIER.

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Absolutely!

The opening of schools seems to me an absolute priority for the development of the child, to the extent of compliance with health standards.

Last spring, we were concerned about the effects of the virus, which was initially assimilated to the flu and which implied greater contagiousness in children.

Then when we saw that the pandemic was severely affecting older patients, the children were kind of pushed aside.

Yet children are the collateral victims of the epidemic.

The most complicated was the collusion between the different spheres: family, friends, school;

the last two having

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Source: lefigaro

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