Response to Covid-19: how far to ban?
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In Paris, a few days after the reconfinement, on Thursday November 5, 2020 (illustration photo).
AP Photo / Michel Euler
By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
France has been subject to second confinement since Friday, October 30, as part of the fight against Covid-19.
Obligatory wearing of a mask in public, restriction of movement and the right to assemble… the measures aimed at limiting the contagious risk and the saturation of intensive care services are perceived in a very variable manner by individuals.
Their announcement and application are sometimes approved for health reasons but also contested, for considerations of individual freedom.
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How does the response to the epidemic impact our freedoms?
How are these restrictions decided?
Should the authorities have engaged in more consultation to gain acceptance for these measures?
Emmanuel Hirsch,
professor of medical ethics at the faculty of medicine of the
University of Paris Saclay
, president of the political council for research and scientific integrity and director of the book
Pandémie 2020. Ethics, society, politics
, published by editions deer.
Pr Karine Lacombe,
head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at
Saint-Antoine Hospital
in Paris.
Author of
La Médecin: An Infectious Disease Doctor in Corona Time
Dr Martin Drès,
resuscitator, Pulmonology Department, Intensive Medicine, Resuscitation at
the Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris
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