The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing our society to make choices of a magnitude and intensity whose consequences cannot yet be measured. While it is certainly justified to base decisions on the expertise of scientists, the crucial trade-offs are a political responsibility. In the area of public health, they constitute a
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The Assembly votes on the article on the state of health emergency. Adopted by a show of hands after several hours of discussion, the article provides that a state of public health emergency, which makes it possible to restrict public freedoms (confinement, requisitioning, etc.), must be introduced as soon as the law comes into force, and for two months. This article provides, in particular, for
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Bad news is piling up day after day about the global evolution of the coronavirus. Confinements are taking hold in the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people on every continent. Everybody's lives have changed in a matter of handfuls of days. Priorities have been turned upside down and everyone is faced with
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How many deaths will the coronavirus cause? No one is yet able to answer this question, but in the worst-case scenario, it could number in the millions around the world, warn experts, who therefore stress the importance of measures such as containment. Time is running out in the face of a
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In these times of containment, with the spread of the coronavirus and the suspension of classes in schools, teleworking is encouraged in most companies. The result? Parents have to juggle their roles as parents and workers simultaneously. How can parental burnout be avoided? Two researchers
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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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Until now, official figures seemed to indicate that sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of more than 1 billion, had been lucky. The interactive map of reported cases of COVID-19, managed by Johns Hopkins University, shows large red spots almost everywhere - except in sub-Saharan Africa. But today, the first
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Scientists from one of the world's leading epidemiology centres, the American Johns Hopkins University, have just published an article that opens up unexpected prospects in these gloomy epidemic times. They explain how viral antibodies, contained in the blood serum of patients cured of coronavirus, could then be used to treat the disease.
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Across Europe, the weekend of 14 March will mark a turning point in the approach to the coronavirus crisis. States of alert, population confinement, bans on going out, social distancing measures are being announced one after the other. Europe closes shop and Schengen collapses: Germany restores its
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The coronavirus pandemic that has hit the world requires a war effort. On the front lines, biotech labs are working tirelessly to discover new weapons to treat and test affected patients and to contain the epidemic in the long term. European laboratories, which are among
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For the majority of people, coronavirus infection will have no major consequences. But for a small fraction of those infected, it will be a matter of life and death. If the epidemic figures continue to rise, the small percentage of people who will be in vital need of medical assistance
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France is not China. Not so much because of its geographical size or economic power, but because of its culture and the way of life and behaviour of the French. The coronavirus is reshuffling the maps of the hierarchy of needs, without revolutionizing everyday habits. It is
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Emmanuel Hirsch is Professor of Medical Ethics and President of the Council for Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity at the University of Paris-Saclay. In this forum for UP', he proposes the organization in the coming days of a citizens' convention to allow urgent consultation on the choices that will be imposed on our country.
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In the unstable context of the beginning of the year 2020, Covid-19 appears as a remarkable inflection point which reshuffles the maps of the hierarchy of needs. Remarkable because it concerns the entire world population, without distinction of social level, consumption tastes, age or gender.
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When maps of greenhouse gas emissions in China, before and after the Coronavirus outbreak, were published, some people immediately shouted victory. When traffic stops, when factories stop running, when people are locked in their homes, the air becomes
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Researchers from the Centre for Infection and Immunity in Lille (CNRS/Inserm/Institut Pasteur de Lille/University of Lille/CHU Lille) and their colleagues from INRAE have revealed for the first time in mice that disturbances in the intestinal microbiota caused by the influenza virus favour secondary bacterial superinfections. Published in the
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They are as old as life itself, but scientists cannot say for sure if they are alive. Viruses are embedded in our DNA, shaping the human saga through mutation and resistance. We touch hundreds of millions of them every day. Like the new epidemic of
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Should we be afraid? The coronavirus is the subject of all our conversations, not news bulletins without counting the sick, the dead, the measures taken by this or that government. To stop, if not eradicate, what seems to have become a strange paranoia with unpredictable consequences. Locking up cities, fencing off more
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Le coronavirus nous met face à un grave problème. Cependant, il faut se souvenir que l’une des premières victimes du coronavirus aura été l’économie. S’il est important de rendre compte de l’évolution de la situation, il faut également mettre l’accent sur les informations positives. Et elles existent aussi : voici dix
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The coronavirus of Chinese origin is spreading, triggering epidemics in many countries at the same time, and now threatens to spread around the world like a full-blown pandemic. All the governments of the states in which patients have been identified are announcing that the spread is inevitable and that it is
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