Didier Raoult was David Pujadas’ guest on the LCI channel for an exclusive interview. It was to allow the Marseille infectious disease specialist to respond to the various attacks against him.
Posted by The Lancet on Friday May 22, a study has questioned the effectiveness of hydrochloroquine in the treatment of coronavirus. The results of this study also ensure that the substance can even be dangerous and cause excess mortality. Despite some criticism of the study, its use to treat the cases of Covid-19 has been suspended in many countries, including Belgium and France. For Didier Raoult, this study is nothing more than ”
messy and delusional study ” who won’t make him change his mind.
It was therefore a very confident Didier Raoult that we saw on the show Tuesday evening. The interview, which was not carried out live, was intended to get to the bottom of things, as David Pujadas explained to journalists from Sunday Journal: ” In my mind, I expect that we will do between 30 and 40 minutes of interview . Didier Raoult is someone eminent, he is a figure of infectiology and virology in France, you have to take the time to get to the bottom of it. ”
Installed in Professor Raoult’s office in Marseille, the two men spoke for almost an hour. Professor Raoult was once again convinced of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine. Very early in the interview, the discussions were complicated: ” You can’t understand what I’m telling you, so I’ll try to tell you again “, first attacked Didier Raoult. ” You think people think like you, but you are wrong. People think like me. Do you want to do a survey between you and me? Want to see what credibility is? ”
Regarding the negative opinion on the use of the treatment recommended by Professor Raoult made by the High Council of Public Health, he said: ” If you want, since there are no more patients, it doesn’t affect me much “.
Since the start of the epidemic, 28,530 deaths have been recorded in France and 83 deaths have taken place in hospitals on Tuesday. 1,555 patients severely affected by the coronavirus were also still being treated in intensive care, 54 less than on Monday.
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