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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We know the opinion of the French on the state of the public hospital: 88% of them consider it to be in "danger" and 94% are in favour of increasing the means. Thus, to improve the operation of the public hospital, 87 % suggest more staff and 77 % more budget.
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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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The coronavirus pandemic still raises many questions about its origin as well as its health impacts. Its complexity stems from its entanglement in a human ecosystem in the throes of upheaval: climate disruption, pollution, chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, which aggravate the effects of Covid-19. What's more, the pandemic
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The latest data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market reveals its devastating effects on workers in the informal economy and hundreds of millions of enterprises around the world. As job losses intensify, almost half of the workers in the informal economy are unemployed.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it: the COVID-19 epidemic is an international public health emergency. A global pandemic evolving into a global economic crisis, which unfortunately disproportionately affects the most vulnerable populations around the world. And among the most affected, the most
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On Tuesday, the Prime Minister will present the framework for the government's plan to break out of containment. It would be neither understandable nor acceptable that the field expertise gained from the Covid-19 test should not be considered an indispensable resource in the argumentation of post-containment policy decisions. No tangible signs, beyond
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The advent of digital technology, telecommunications, artificial intelligence and augmented reality has broken down borders, reduced distances and created a culture of sharing. In recent weeks, however, borders have closed, sharing has become more complex and the eyes of the world have refocused.
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Are we really living in such an unprecedented era of containment imposed by antiviral prophylaxis? The management of the crisis is naturally following the lines of force of the world before the crisis, it even amplifies certain directions and will impose, if we really want something different, to analyze its
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The "Covid-19 Challenge" is an international scheme aimed at supporting and financing technological partnerships between innovative companies for the development and rapid deployment of innovations in the face of the multiple challenges linked to the Covid-19 crisis. You have until 15 May 2020 to apply. The programme This call
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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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Public Health France makes available indicators for monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic by department, in order to follow the day-to-day evolution of hospitalisations in our regions and monitor the intensity of the epidemic. UP' offers you the graphs of Public Health France, revealing a national epidemic with variable geography. From
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the statistics have been consistent: the vast majority of children and young people under the age of 18 are either spared the disease or develop asymptomatic or mild forms. As the pandemic increases around the world,
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The names of these promising drugs to treat COVID-19 patients are beginning to become known to the public: Remdesivir, Ritonavir, Lopinavir and of course the most talked about, Chloroquine. These four promising treatments will be the subject of a major global study by the World Health Organization.
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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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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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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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Ce que les peuples racines ont à nous dire - De la santé des hommes et de la santé du monde, by Frederika Van Ingen - Editions Les liens qui libèrent (LLL), January 2020 - 368 Pages How can the knowledge of the root peoples inspire us in our approach to
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