Professor Didier Raoult is known for his clear-cut positions. Specialized in infectious diseases, he is particularly known for having put forward tests that showed the potential effectiveness of chloroquine to fight against the coronavirus.
Didier Raoult is also known for shaking up certain ideas. Given that deconfinement is on everyone’s lips and that many countries are gradually easing the measures, the question of a “second wave” of the coronavirus epidemic arises.
But for Didier Raoult, this is not credible. “The rebound story is a fantasy that was invented during the Spanish flu (…). Generally, it happens in a single curve. I hate to predict, but this way of building (bell curve, a single wave, note) is fairly common for epidemics. Epidemics disappeared in time long before there was any way to contain them. They disappeared anyway. Humanity is not dead No epidemic is like that. Epidemics start, accelerate, culminate – this is the maximum moment of transmissibility – and we don’t know why, “he said in a video from the IHU Mediterranean. Infection, the Institute he heads.
So, if he himself says that “the forecasts are to be taken with caution”, he indicates that, according to a study, 97% of the cases will have already taken place around May 7 in France. Study on which Emmanuel Macron arises to organize deconfinement and which he considers credible.
Furthermore, “the fact that it takes 70% of the immune population to control the epidemic is entirely virtual, that’s not how it happens,” he adds. “Epidemics start and stop for reasons that we know very little about. The future may allow us to better understand the relationships between the ecosystem and the transmissibility of infectious diseases.” If his position leaves questions unanswered, Professor Raoult is rather optimistic.
The only certainty is that scientists and doctors do not agree on the coronavirus crisis, either on its evolution, its impact on the population and on the means to overcome the crisis.
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