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Covid-19: Is it over or not?

Covid-19: Is it over or not?

Resuscitation, death, contamination... Almost 15 days after deconfinement, these indicators are rather positive. However, the authorities judge that it is too early to draw conclusions. And this, despite the opinion of scientists who no longer hesitate to say that the Covid-19 epidemic is behind us. Especially since there is news

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The invisible pandemic

The invisible pandemic

Everyone will be exposed to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2, and most people will be infected. Johan Giesecke, the epidemiologist behind Sweden's non-containment strategy, explains in an article published in the medical journal The Lancet the value of choosing herd immunity in his country. He

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Letter to my grandchildren

On Tuesday, May 12th, I should be at school... eight weeks after I left you in shock and awe. I should be in school and I don't know what our school will be like then... Will there be white marks drawn in front of each class, one metre apart so that

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How containment disturbs our perception of space-time

How containment disturbs our perception of space-time

For the physicist-philosopher Etienne Klein, confinement upsets our conception of space-time. It is true that the time of physics does not change: one minute always lasts sixty seconds, but it is our perception of time that changes in this confined space where everything becomes softer, without rhythm, a time

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Would blanket containment be a mistake?

Would blanket containment be a mistake?

Professor Jean-François Toussaint, professor of physiology, doctor at Hôtel-Dieu and Director of the IRMES, has been scrutinizing with his team of statisticians, since the very beginning of the epidemic, the avalanches of data coming to him from all over the world. For him, generalized containment would prove ineffective and lead to immense collateral damage.

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Containment makes us see our habitats in a different light...

Containment makes us see our habitats in a different light...

Whether you live in an apartment in the heart of the city or in a detached house on its outskirts, there are three types of cultural models that characterize the way you live at home. They determine the boundary between public and private spaces. They are the basis of our social identity. Finally, they organize intra-family relations in the home.

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Exhortation to doctors of the plague, by Albert Camus

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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.

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A necessary text, by Alexandre Postel

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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.

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Claudia Andujar at the Cartier Foundation

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During its closing period, the Fondation Cartier connects you to the world of Claudia Andujar thanks to new content to be discovered on a dedicated website, as well as a series of podcasts. As an extension of the exhibition presented at the Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art, the website https://claudia-andujar.fondationcartier.com offers a

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Behind the scenes at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Launches #GuggenheimBilbaoLive Digital Initiative to Showcase the Museum's "Behind the Scenes" During its Temporary Closure Although temporarily closed to visitors in order to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is launching #GuggenheimBilbaoLive, a digital initiative that will permanently offer, through the website

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"War Allies" in condom mode

Confinement means giving up our freedom to move, to meet and to trade. It means preserving ourselves, a necessary measure to slow the exponential progression of coronavirus contamination. With his epidemiological crisis leaflet, Bernard Umbrecht offers us a moment of joyful curiosity about the definition of the word "coronavirus".

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The psychological stress of confinement

On 6 March, the results of a national survey on the degree of psychological distress of the Chinese population following the Covid-19 epidemic were published in the specialist journal General Psychiatry. Eight days later, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet also published a review of the literature.

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