INTERVIEW
What will the evaluation mission launched on Thursday by the Élysée Palace on the management of the coronavirus crisis do? Its president, the Swiss infectious disease and epidemiologist Didier Pittet, sums it up in one sentence: it is a question of being interested in "the way in which France has managed this crisis, in comparison with other countries", a he explained to the microphone of Europe 1, Friday noon. The specialist also promises that this mission will be "completely independent", while a controversy has erupted over the influence of laboratories in the recommendations made by the Scientific Council.
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"A commission which is above all interdisciplinary"
Without being able to reveal for the moment the precise work provided by the various experts summoned, Professor Didier Pittet has drawn the contours of a mission which, according to him, must have "a panoramic and global vision": "It is a commission which is above all interdisciplinary, there is the health, economic, social and societal aspect. "
Secondly, this evaluation mission will have a European vision: "It is not a question of opposing the countries, because each country has done what it thought it was right to do." The findings of the mission will also be sent to the World Health Organization, "which has requested reports from all countries".
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Better anticipate health crises
This mission must therefore come back to the choices made in terms of containment, tests or masks, but also try to project into the future. This is also one of its official ambitions, as presented in its roadmap: it must dwell on "the anticipation of pandemic risks".
"If we found advice for a possibly different management of a possible rebound, we would point it out at that time", underlines Professor Didier Pittet, also renowned for having helped keep the hydroalcoholic gel formula in the public domain . "Good management of the future is about understanding why we are doing such a thing, at such a time." A first progress report is expected in October, before a final report scheduled for the end of 2020.