Management of the pandemic marked by successes, but also by mistakes. As the end of the Scientific Council approaches -it is scheduled for Sunday- its president Jean-François Delfraissy trusts this Saturday in the columns of the Parisian. He remembers his action and admits to “regretting” some of the decisions made during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The doctor first said he regretted imposing a ban on visits to nursing homes in the early days of the pandemic. A “deep” regret that will haunt “his whole (his) life” of him. They were reintroduced after a month and a half.
“We put health first, perhaps to the detriment of a form of humanity,” he said.
According to the immunologist, the forced isolation of certain elderly people in nursing homes caused a “slip” in some of them who allowed themselves to “die of boredom”.
The request of a citizens’ committee rejected
Second complaint: the lack of participation of the population in general in decision-making. Jean-François Delfraissy claims to have requested the creation of a citizens’ committee, but has been denied.
“We could, for example, ask parents about reopening schools,” he suggests.
Despite these failures, the professor wants to keep a clear eye on his work and believes that not everything is to be thrown away. “The excess mortality in France in 2020 and 2021 is much lower than in our European neighbors”, he underlines in particular.
“The pandemic is not over”
The Scientific Council ends next Sunday, after having supported the government in its management of the Covid-19 pandemic for more than two years. He brought together some thirty experts.
The pandemic, however, is not “not over”, recalls the doctor who warns of the possible appearance of a “new virus that will have other properties”.
If the ebb of the seventh wave of the Covid-19 epidemic continues in France, with the beginning of a drop in hospital admissions, hospitalizations still remain at a high level, according to a report by Public Health France published on Friday.
Source: BFM TV
