98-year-old Christian Chenay takes care of Covid-19 patients - 20 Minutes
And three. After experiencing the Spanish flu in the 1920s, and typhus during the Second World War, Christian Chenay is now experiencing his third epidemic.
"I never experienced that. For typhus, we had gas masks, and luckily there was treatment. There, we don't even have a way of knowing who is sick and who is not, ”he explains.
"Faced with this virus, we feel helpless"
Aged 98, this doctor based in Chevilly-Larue, a Paris suburb, was forced to close his practice at the very beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, but decided, despite the risks, to continue his consultations. Even if he admits: "faced with this virus, we feel helpless".
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