Masquer le monde, de Julie Hermesse, Frédéric Laugrand, Pierre-Joseph Laurent, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti, Olivier Servais, Anne-Marie Vuillemenot – Editions L’Harmattan – Academia, septembre 2020, 180 pages Il est question ici de chauve-souris, de catastrophes, de masques, d’espace-temps et de morts. Cet ouvrage rassemble six points de vue d’anthropologues sur l’impensable et
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L’automne s’installe dans l’hémisphère Nord et la pandémie de Covid-19 ne faiblit pas dans de nombreuses régions et notamment en France. L’arrivée de la période froide risque-t-elle d’aggraver la situation et que faut-il craindre ? Les épidémiologistes qui se penchent sur la question de la saisonnalité du Covid-19 sont préoccupés par
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Pandémie – Traquer les épidémies, du choléra aux coronavirus, de Sonia Shah – Traduit de l’anglais par Michel Durand – Edition écosociété, 22 octobre 2020 – 328 pages C’était un consensus scientifique avant même l’apparition de la COVID-19 : 90% des épidémiologistes avaient prédit qu’un virus ou une bactérie causerait
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Le rejet d’un nombre monstrueux de masques chirurgicaux en matières plastiques dans l’environnement conduit à un phénomène de pollution visuelle, biologique et chimique sans précédent à l’échelle mondiale, dans tous les écosystèmes. C’est dans les milieux marins que l’impact des microplastiques risque d’être le plus néfaste. Une équipe de chercheurs
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Sous couvert de se protéger de la Covid-19, se sont développées cet été de multiples stratégies pour tenter de maintenir les foules à distance. Mais, n’est-ce pas tout simplement que l’on ne supporte plus l’autre ? On se souvient, au début de l’épidémie, des islois se plaignant de la migration des Parisiens
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Nous pressentons déjà que nous allons tous perdre quelque chose que nous aimions. Je ne parle pas ici des malheurs personnels, des chagrins, des pertes inconsolables que vivent ou vivront de nombreux êtres humains en ces temps épidémiques. Je songe à autre chose de beaucoup moins brutal mais de tout
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« Nous ne voulons plus être gouvernés par la peur » appellent 35 chercheurs, universitaires et sommités médicales dans une tribune publiée par le Parisien aujourd’hui 10 septembre. Les signataires critiquent la communication du gouvernement sur la crise du Covid, qu’ils jugent trop anxiogène, relevant davantage de l’affichage d’une « posture protectrice
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Following Jean-François Toussaint, who in the same magazine began to denounce the collateral damage of blind containment instead of targeting, and Alessandro Baricco, who dared to use the iconoclastic word "disproportion" to characterize anti-coronavirus measures, let us hope that it is still possible that fear will give way.
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Ce n’est pas parce que quelques réinfections par le COVID-19 ont commencé à apparaître parmi plus de 23,69 millions de cas de coronavirus documentés dans le monde que cela signifie qu’une première infection par un coronavirus ne protège pas contre de futures maladies ou qu’un vaccin ne contribuera pas à
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We know more or less well how the Covid-19 outbreak started: probably because of bats, near Wuhan in China. What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility, a series of
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How the coronavirus spreads from one victim to another remains an impenetrable mystery. But in the midst of all the frantic efforts to understand the spread of the epidemic, there is one finding that seems consistent: transmission is inconsistent. Some people - most, in fact - do not
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The health crisis has been going on for four months. The danger of an epidemic seems to be receding but the human, social and economic damage is revealing itself every day. Already the first assessments of our country's attitude during the crisis are taking shape. The Montaigne Institute has just published a detailed report analysing the action taken by our country during the crisis.
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Deconfinement is progressing in most Western countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented period is coming to an end, and once the astonishment is over, languages are being loosened. Some twenty-fifth hour workers are coming to give lessons and rewrite history, while others had always put in
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It's an enigma that has been with us since the early days of the pandemic. Where did this coronavirus come from that turned the world upside down? Hypotheses have been put forward and everyone has put forward their own explanation: the virus comes from a bat, a pangolin, it escaped from a Chinese lab,
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"Tonight, I share with you what we know and what we don't know." (Emmanuel Macron, address to the French, 13 April 2020). Here is a President of the Republic openly claiming his ignorance while experts publicly acknowledge that Covid-19 is far from having revealed all
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In our post-viral world, major issues concerning the environment, education, and international relations arise. UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, specialists in fields ranging from climatology to international relations, physics and African studies, to express their vision of the challenges and opportunities.
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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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Sanofi, by announcing that the United States would be the first to distribute a potential vaccine against Covid-19, provoked anger and indignation. COVID-19 has no nation or ethnicity. If the pandemic is not monitored in one country, it will accelerate beyond the borders of that country.
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Metaphors often allow for a better understanding of as many risk or hazard situations as possible, as in the case of the Covid-19 pandemic. They appear in almost every area of our lives, even penetrating research laboratories and playing a central role in
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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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