Pour faire rempart à l’émergence du variant Delta, qui est 60% plus transmissible que l’Alpha selon les autorités britanniques, les scientifiques insistent sur l’importance de la vaccination complète, avec les deux doses. Les vaccins auraient une efficacité réduite contre ce variant mais seraient le seul moyen de s’en prémunir et
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Quelles que soient les décisions annoncées par le président de la République au cours de son allocution le 24 novembre, à défaut de changer de méthode, il lui faudra renouveler le registre d’une communication qui a épuisé tous les recours possibles. Le discours guerroyer, la posture oratoire du décideur en
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Ce mardi 24 novembre, Emmanuel Macron, doit annoncer une sortie du second confinement qui contraint toute l’économie et la société française et engendre des pathologies graves : isolement des personnes les plus fragiles créant dépressions ou suicides, augmentation des mortalités de pathologies habituellement classiques (arrêts cardiaques hors milieux hospitalier, fractures de
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The ordeal of Covid-19, marked by the confinement of half the world's population and the halt of the economy, was not only unprecedented in history. It was brutal and had a strong impact on all our lifestyles, including our most basic freedoms. What will be left of this period
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Roubaix, alternative city, cosmopolitan city, bubbling, endearing, which reveals itself to whoever takes the trouble to listen and look at it. A city in its raw state, which has been able to take advantage of its past riches to create new ones in the spirit of the times, and of its abundant industrial heritage.
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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 French will be able to go on holiday in France in July and August": it's official, Edouard Philippe has just announced this Thursday, May 14th. The deconfinement seems to be on the right track. Even if the Minister of Ecological Transition, Elisabeth Borne, has announced the creation of a
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What's a life worth? The question has been on the minds of philosophers, but it is also a debate that has been stirring economists for decades, and which is being revived by the prospect of deconfinement, synonymous with the trade-off between deadly risk and economic or social devastation. Questioned on May 6, as the pandemic
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Some kids have everything, some kids have almost nothing. In France, as in other countries, not everyone experiences confinement in the same way, of course, so great is the diversity of the regions. Many, well housed, will see family ties grow stronger. Others, large families in small spaces, are waiting with their children to be reunited.
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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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In order to anticipate and prevent the massive use of private cars at a time of deconfinement, the Climate Action Network is asking the Government to release an emergency fund for bicycles of 500 million euros, which is essential to support communities and ensure the deployment of temporary bicycle paths throughout the country.
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May 11, 2020 is the date set by the government for the gradual reopening of schools. In a note of 20 April (1), the Scientific Council recommends to the government the reopening of schools and establishments in September, indicating in another specific opinion that the decision to
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Régis Marcon, a starred chef (1), signed an op-ed published in Le Figaro on Monday 20 April to call for "a partial deconfinement of responsible catering". Surrounded by 17 of the most renowned chefs in French catering (2), he calls for saving "more than a million jobs". A platform at the
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It would be inconsistent to criticise now public authorities which, if only as a precautionary measure, could have included the possibility of a major health crisis in their forecasts. Apparently nothing prepared us for Covid-19 because no one believed in it. We learn a lot from those moments of suffering, of concern...
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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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