While discussions between the government and the Scientific Council are gradually moving towards the issue of deconfinement, a team of researchers has just developed a solution based on artificial intelligence, which would make it possible to return to normal life more quickly. Guest of Europe 1, the anesthetist at the Cochin Hospital in Paris Alexandre Mignon presents the project.

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How to orchestrate the deconfinement phase? How do you determine who can leave your home without taking the risk of being infected with the coronavirus? These are the questions the government must answer today. "It is extremely complex because the circulation of Covid-19 will undoubtedly last longer than the confinement period", underlines Alexandre Mignon, professor of medicine and anesthetist at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, questioned on Europe 1 on Saturday.

An effective solution from a hundred thousand tests

The doctor, guest of Patrick Cohen, is currently working with a team made up of volunteer researchers on a digital tool which, he guarantees, could help us to resume the course of a normal life more quickly: Covidia.

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The tool, which uses artificial intelligence, is based on the collection of a sample of data. According to Alexandre Mignon, from a hundred thousand tests carried out, the team could have enough data to carry out an effective mapping, making it possible to trace the evolution of the pandemic in time and in space. We could thus warn each of their own risk factor.

"A start of response in the coming month"

"With our solution, we can give a start of response in the coming month", guarantees Alexandre Mignon. "We do not need all the personal data: elements of the medical profile of the person, temporal and spatial displacements carried out as well as data on the communes."

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This device would thus make it possible to determine where each individual is in relation to the disease. Alexandre Mignon distinguishes three profiles. First, "immunized people, who must resume a normal life as quickly as possible to revive economic activity".

"Massive testing would be extremely expensive"

Then those who have never encountered the virus. "These represent the vast majority of the population," said the professor. Among them, there are the most fragile people, who will have to stay confined longer than the others, and "the strongest, the young people who have few risk factors". Finally, those who have encountered the virus but are still negative for the tests, who should remain under surveillance.

"Massive tests at the end of confinement would be extremely expensive, not to mention that it would take almost a year to test the entire French population," explains Alexandre Mignon. "We also cannot trust the self-tests," he said. "As for deconfinement with digital tracing, as in China, France is not ready for this."