What memory of the pandemic?

awareness mural, fight against Covid-19 in Senegal. © IRD - Bernard Taverne

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Why is the transmission of experience essential for our common future? Responses from researchers from all backgrounds involved in the Covid-19 Ad memoriam Institute.

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What memory of the pandemic for our common future? To co-build our collective and individual memory of the pandemic for today and especially for the future ... Why is it essential to collect, share and transmit our experiences and experiences, our knowledge and our strategies in the face of Covid epidemic? How to answer all the vital and essential questions which have arisen with this pandemic wave which does not stop changing our lives .. All affected, all in the same boat, all vulnerable (even if some - and unfortunately - always the same - are more so than others). How can we not forget it? " To live an experience and not to transmit it is to betray " said the Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel: it is around this major idea that the'Covid Institute 19 Ad Memoriam . It is not just another institution, but a veritable international collective of researchers, carers, artists, legal thinkers from all backgrounds and all disciplines, under the aegis of WHO and IRD , and who commits to make a common world to think of the world to come

  We will talk about it with those who have been in the 1st line:

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-  Laetitia Atlani-Duault, anthropologist, scientific director of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme and research director at IRD. She is a member of the Covid-19 Scientific Committee, leads that of the IRD and heads the Covid-19 Ad Memoriam Institute
- Sadek Beloucif,  head of the Anesthesia-Resuscitation Department at Avicenne Hospital, former member of the National Committee for and president of the Orientation Council at the Fondation de l'islam de France
- Denis Malvy , infectiologist at the Bordeaux University Hospital and member of the Covid-19 Scientific Council
- Frédéric Worms,  professor of contemporary philosophy at the ENS, and member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee.

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