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Covid-19: the health pass, a sustainable solution to control the epidemic?

2021-08-05T17:23:44.178Z


DECRYPTION - In addition to encouraging vaccination, it could help reduce the number of hospitalizations.


The epidemic curves follow worrying trajectories in the territory.

"But for a little less than a week, the rate of transmission of the virus has gone down again

," notes Jean-Stéphane Dhersin, deputy scientific director of the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

The epidemic is progressing a little slower.

We cannot know which direction it would take without intervention, but vaccination coverage is too low to guard against a rebound. ”

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  • Covid-19: what we know about the Delta variant

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Antoine Flahault: "The general health pass is as effective as a confinement"

Will the health pass help us slow down the course of the virus?

For Antoine Flahault, professor of public health at the University of Geneva, its

“extended use could allow the country to regain lasting control over the fourth wave linked to the Delta variant

.

If the bet turns out to be a winner, the French government will then have at its disposal an original instrument for effective control in terms of health, which could allow it to avoid further recourse to confinement this fall and this winter. "

Difficulties in hospitals

In theory, the possession of a

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Source: lefigaro

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