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"Pandemic fatigue": the French worn out by the health crisis

2021-09-06T06:03:57.746Z


DECRYPTION - The gloomy summer did not help recharge batteries already well worn by eighteen months of the epidemic. A weariness that risks pushing some to lower their guard a little too early in the face of the virus.


The World Health Organization (WHO) was already worried about it last fall:

“pandemic fatigue”

loomed over the world after six months of health crisis.

A year and a half after its appearance, Sars-CoV-2 is still there and our form suffers: 40% of French people feel more tired than before the crisis, according to an Odoxa survey for Leurquin-Mediolanum laboratories ( survey carried out by internet on a sample of 1005 French people representative of the population aged 18 and over).

The summer holidays gave them less rest than usual: only 26% of people questioned feel more rested than before the holidays, 8 points less than in a previous survey published in 2017.

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"Weariness in the face of a pandemic is an expected and natural response to a protracted public health crisis, in particular because the severity and scale of the Covid-19 pandemic have required the implementation of invasive measures having impacts without precedent on daily life

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Source: lefigaro

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