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With the coronavirus, the news is quite anxiety-provoking, without adding any more. This is the message relayed since this Saturday by both the Toulouse University Hospital and that of Montpellier.

The two establishments, joined by the regional health agency, qualify as "fake", the viral message that circulates on social networks and by sms and reports the words of a certain "Claire Magne", nurse at Samu, sometimes in the Pink City, sometimes in the Hérault prefecture.

STOP FAKE NEWS!
A message is currently circulating on the networks / SMS indicating that a nurse from SAMU31, Toulouse, has asked to send an alert message. It's a FAKE. THANK YOU FOR NOT RELAYING #FakeNews # COVID19fake_en #Toulouse

- Toulouse University Hospital (@CHUdeToulouse) March 21, 2020

[#coronavirus #occitanie] Let's be smarter than those who circulate false information: the same nurse does not work at @CHUdeToulouse and @CHU_Montpellier! To verify the information, subscribe to the official accounts of your hospitals and public services. https://t.co/8QY2AYuETZ

- ARS Occitanie (@ARS_OC) March 22, 2020

FAKE OFF

The Toulouse University Hospital assures in particular that it has "no nurse of this name at the Samu".

In her post, the so-called caregiver first delivers a message of public health by begging people to stay at home. But she then indicates to her interlocutor that the peak of the epidemic is according to the confidences of a regulatory doctor planned for this weekend and the week to come.

So, the most pessimistic will say that, fake or not, fiction is currently only a few days ahead of reality. But "Claire Magne" does not stop at medical testimony. She also advises leaving your shopping “decanted” for 1.5 hours in your car.

Lastly, she affirms that the virus is becoming more and more virulent and that all the serious cases hospitalized "in the sheave" at the Toulouse University Hospital are less than fifty years old. A false assertion since, this Friday, the CHU officially indicated that eight patients, aged 41 to 80 years were hospitalized in intensive care, and that the average age was sixty years.

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