Brigitte Autran, who assumed the presidency of the new Health Risk Monitoring and Forecasting Committee (Covars) on Thursday, a body presented as the successor to the Scientific Council, indicated this Friday on Franceinfo that she should not worry too much about the eighth wave of Covid – 19 currently hitting France.
“She doesn’t worry us, even though she’s there, she’s real,” said this renowned immunologist, known for her work on AIDS.
However, this optimism has its limits. Dans la lignée de ce qu’avait I declared in the debut of the week the Minister of Solidarity and Santé François Braun, Brigitte Autran appealed to the French to cover the masque dans les transports, even if there is no countersigning measure in this instant on the table.
“A civic gesture”
“I say that you really have to start wearing the mask again on public transport and in populated places. When you are around someone who is fragile, you have to protect them,” he said, calling on the French to follow suit. Asian populations, for whom the mask has been a reflection for several years.
“It has to become a civic gesture,” he hammered.
The immunologist took advantage of his speech to ask the French to get vaccinated, and specifically with the bivalent vaccines, available from October 3, which target both the original strain of Covid-19 and the Omicron variant that is in the majority today. .
Especially since “hospitalizations are on the rise”, recognized Brigitte Autran, and that the appearance of a possible new variant is being actively monitored, especially in France by the Covars that she has recently headed.
Source: BFM TV
