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
PlusThe 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
PlusFor 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
PlusFrance 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
PlusEmmanuel 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.
PlusIn 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.
PlusWhen 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
PlusResearchers 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
PlusThey 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
PlusShould 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
PlusLe 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
PlusThe 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
PlusCela aurait pu être un pangolin. Ou une chauve-souris. Ou, comme le suggère une théorie maintenant démystifiée qui a fait le tour du web, un serpent. La course pour identifier la source animale de COVID-19, le coronavirus qui piège actuellement plus de 150 millions de personnes dans des quarantaines et
PlusBeijing has announced a "complete" ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice suspected to be at the root of the coronavirus outbreak that began in December in central China and now threatens the world with a pandemic. This announcement is good news for the advocates of
PlusThe coronavirus COVID-19 continued to spread on Wednesday across the world which, according to a WHO expert, "is simply not ready to deal with it". The December epidemic in central China has already reached a peak in that country, where it infected some
PlusAs the coronavirus-COVID-19 accelerates its spread around the world, as WHO warns of the risk of a pandemic, as stock exchanges around the world panic, governments are taking action. The risk of a major public health crisis calls for measures of restraint, containment, surveillance and monitoring that will be necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.
PlusEvery day the number of people infected and deaths due to coronavirus passes a milestone. China is by far the most affected region in the world, despite the exceptional measures that the country has taken. Draconian measures to lock up tens of millions of people in
PlusA research team at the University of North Carolina in the United States, led by one of the world's leading virus specialists, Professor Ralph Baric, is racing against time to artificially recreate the Chinese coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 is its scientific name). From DNA
PlusL’épidémie de coronavirus Covid-19 en cours, qui a débuté à Wuhan à la fin de l’année dernière, illustre bien la menace que représentent les maladies infectieuses émergentes, non seulement pour la santé humaine et animale, mais aussi pour la stabilité sociale, le commerce et l’économie mondiale. Ces perturbations se produisent dans
PlusThe images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means
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