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If we continue on the same strategy, we are going straight into the wall. This is the observation of most of the great specialists while the coronavirus epidemic seems to confirm its rebound in France: more than 3,000 cases were identified in 24 hours on Sunday, for the second consecutive day.
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"It's mess after mess"
Faced with this rebound, the speech of the authorities is not clear, according to specialists. Like the obligation to wear a mask in certain streets of Paris, then in others, according to various instructions published in recent days. Result: a message difficult to understand, in a situation yet tense. "It's muddle on muddle", comments on Europe 1 the epidemiologist Catherine Hill.
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"First we were told that the masks were useless, then we were told that they were useful a little, now you have to put them almost everywhere, but only where we tell you ... has neither tail nor head, ”she illustrates. "It takes a simple speech: wear a mask because my mask protects you and your mask protects me."
Apply "what worked" in other countries
"This is what worked in countries where the epidemic has been controlled," illustrates the specialist, who also criticizes the testing policy applied in France. According to her, this should be simplified, intensified and focused on the elderly and residents of nursing homes. "It is necessary that the tests go to people and not that people go to the tests", insists the epidemiologist.