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Anti-health pass rallies: should we expect an explosion of contamination among demonstrators?

2021-08-03T07:33:50.918Z


DECRYPTION - Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, for the most part unvaccinated and without a mask ... The promiscuity and the absence of barrier gestures during the last demonstrations could well favor the spread of the virus, despite their behavior in outdoors.


They were 45,000 more demonstrators than the previous Saturday: 14,250 in Paris, 13,000 in Toulon, 6,500 in Nice and 5,000 in Nantes, tight next to each other, the mask often on the chin, for the most part unvaccinated. In the midst of the explosion of the fourth wave, would the anti-health pass demonstrations that took place on Saturdays 24 and 31 August not be a potential epidemic bomb? “

It makes sense!

"Protested Professor Karine Lacombe, head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris. "

With a very contagious variant, unvaccinated people therefore more likely to be infected and transmit the virus, and great promiscuity, there is enough to create beautiful clusters

“, Points out the infectious disease specialist, contacted by

Le Figaro

.

Read also: Anti-health pass protests: the executive minimizes the extent of the crisis but remains on alert

A danger exacerbated by the arrival of the Delta variant, much more contagious, and which now represents more than 80% of contaminations in France.

As if to accredit this possibility,

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Source: lefigaro

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