Coronavirus: French crisis management targeted by report

The Pittet report, the first part of which was published on Tuesday, autopsy the French management of the first wave of coronavirus.

Faced with a worrying health situation, its publication was advanced.

It ranks France among the average students: its management has been better than that of Italy, Spain or the United States in terms of impact on mortality.

On the other hand, France does less well than its German, Swiss or Austrian neighbors.

>> LIVE

- Coronavirus: follow the evolution of the situation Tuesday, October 13

"Do field epidemiology"

"You have systems which are extraordinary but it is still necessary that the computer systems speak to each other and that you have the data to assess the crisis", explains at the microphone of Europe 1 Professor Didier Pittet, president of the mission.

The professor points out in particular communication problems between health actors.

“What is important is to be able to do epidemiology in the field, that is to say that people understand what the barrier measures are, if we want to be able to reduce the importance of the crisis. "

>> Find Europe Soir with Julian Bugier in replay and podcast here

While our hospital system has been able to organize itself to face the crisis, the deployment of large-scale screening tests is another weak point described in the report.

Germany, which has generalized them faster thanks to better coordination with biological laboratories, would be the example to follow.

Finally, shortcomings in our pandemic surveillance system have been revealed.

With us, it was not the health agencies who alerted to the seriousness of the situation, but the doctors and experts in the field.

"This progress report will be scrutinized carefully," explains the Elysee, while Emmanuel Macron is due to announce new health measures on Wednesday.