• For several days, some Internet users have been relaying a short video mocking a supposed slip of a regional health agency director about Covid-19 and vaccination.

  • This sequence shows her affirming: “We have a huge reservoir of people to contaminate!

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  • This excerpt is authentic and taken from a press conference by the director of the ARS of Guadeloupe given on July 28, 2021. But it was taken out of context, since the latter actually sought to alert on the danger caused by the weak vaccination rate of the population, as shown by the rest of his speech.

The video extract only lasts a few seconds, but it greatly amuses some Internet users who are convinced that vaccination against Covid-19 would be either useless or downright dangerous.

We see, during a press point, a "head of ARS" (Regional Health Agency) affirming, in front of the multiple microphones installed in front of her: "We have a huge reservoir of people to contaminate!

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When you realize that you have just told a truth, without your knowledge: ARS manager shamefully lowers his head, after having taken out his meatball!

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- Anton_Ar_Fur® (@fur_anton) October 10, 2021

"When you realize that you have just told a truth, without your knowledge: [a] head of ARS [Regional Health Agency] shamefully lowers her head, after having taken out her ball!

“, Laughs, in the caption, one of the many Twitter users to have shared this sequence without further context.

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This extract is authentic: it is taken from the press conference given jointly on July 28, 2021 by the director of the ARS of Guadeloupe, Valérie Denux, and by the prefect of Guadeloupe, Alexandre Rochatte.

This forty-minute public speech can be viewed in full on the Facebook page of our colleagues from Guadeloupe La 1ère.

After having given a long summary of the local health situation, then very "worrying" according to Alexandre Rochatte, Valérie Denux comes to discuss the vaccination rate against Covid-19 among the population, in a context very different from that that suggests the viral extract.

“So we're going to talk about vaccination, of course.

The vaccination is very weak, and suddenly, with the contaminations that we have, it is the announced disaster.

We have a huge reservoir of people to contaminate!

»She thus affirms (from 13'23).

Without this last sentence being necessarily a slip of the tongue in view of the rest of his remarks (truncated in the shared extract), since it insists precisely on the considerable number of people at risk of being infected: "Vaccination in Guadeloupe, today, for adults, over 18 years of age, is 27.77% for the first injection.

For adolescents between 12 and 18, it is 5.81%.

So in total, the population overall, for the first injection, it is of the order of 21% and with the two injections carried out, it is below 20%.

So how do you expect us to be protected with that?

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A duo at the heart of a controversy during another press conference

"Anti-vaccines do a lot of harm and endanger Guadeloupe", then adds the head of the ARS, after having already castigated their influence in the public debate.

Despite this cry of alarm, the deterioration of the health situation continued, since Guadeloupe was finally reconfigured from August 4, 2021. Just days after another press conference by the prefect of Guadeloupe and the head of the ARS of Guadeloupe caused controversy, the first having been caught whispering to Valérie Denux to adopt "a serious and catastrophic tone".

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