Invited Monday by "Culture Médias" for the new issue of "Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body", the doctor Michel Cymes also spoke on the health crisis.
For him, it is time to speed up the vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
He also wonders about the usefulness of the "citizen collective" that the government will create.
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"We are not going to make a joke: it is not going fast enough".
The doctor Michel Cymes is worried Monday in
Culture Médias
about the French slowness to vaccinate the population against the Covid-19.
He therefore calls for a rapid acceleration of the vaccination campaign.
He is also surprised at the usefulness of the composition by the government of a citizen collective of 35 French people, drawn by lot this Monday, in order to involve the population in the vaccine strategy.
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"I think we missed the start a bit in the starting blocks and that we will try to fix things. But things are not going fast enough", he adds.
According to him, the executive may be "traumatized by H1N1 and vaccinodromes", and would like to avoid the attacks suffered by Roselyne Bachelot, at the time Minister of Health.
But there is also a problem of bureaucracy.
"We need freezers that keep the doses at -80 ° C, he recalls. And from what I've read, there are I don't know how many of these freezers are waiting for the green light. state. It is not possible. "
"I would hate to be Minister of Health today"
Michel Cymes also wonders about the government decision to create a citizen collective of 35 French people drawn at random to decide on France's vaccine strategy.
"I wonder if it is really necessary to push democracy to these extremes, which would consist in asking 35 people representing the French what they can think of the vaccination campaign", he explains.
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Because the doctor recalls that the country already has enough competent bodies on the subject.
"We have experts. There is a scientific committee around Macron. Everyone today is heading in the direction of a vaccination campaign," recalls Michel Cymes.
He is however conciliatory towards Oliver Veran.
"I would not like to be Minister of Health today. I believe that Olivier is doing his job very well," he said.
"There are problems, there were delays at takeoff, problems with the vaccination campaign, okay. But I'm not sure those 35 people drawn are going to bring us much."