Who advises the government to fight coronavirus?

• Emmanuel Macron wants to rely on science to manage the health crisis and stem the coronavirus epidemic.
• The president and the government have set up two committees of researchers, installed a "listener" and a "Monsieur déconfinement".
• 20 Minutes reviews the actors of this crisis management at the top of the State.

Since the arrival of the coronavirus epidemic in France, the management of the health crisis has monopolized Emmanuel Macron and the government. To coordinate the fight against Covid-19 based on scientific facts, the executive has created new positions and committees. Thursday morning, while traveling at the Kremlin-Bicêtre University Hospital, the Head of State was also accompanied by Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council for Coronavirus.

The president has created a second committee of researchers, while in government, two appointments have been made in recent days to advise and support governance in this context. 20 Minutes reviews the actors of this crisis management at the top of the State.

The scientific council for containment management

It is the first body specially created by the executive. Established on March 11, this committee of 11 doctors and specialized researchers has the mission of enlightening the government in its management of the crisis. He can be consulted by the executive on questions, such as the holding of the first round of municipal elections or the rules of confinement, and can also take up matters of his choice. In less than a month, he issued six opinions, published on the site of the Ministry of Health. To this day, Emmanuel Macron has always followed the advice of this council.

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CARE, for remedies, screenings and innovations

On March 24, Emmanuel Macron formed a second group of scientists, CARE, for the Research, Analysis and Expertise Committee. "It is thanks to science and medicine that we will defeat the virus," he said.

These 12 doctors and researchers (two of whom also sit on the Scientific Council) are responsible for advising the government on treatments and screenings as well as “ backtracking practices which make it possible to identify people in contact with those infected with the Covid virus. -19 ", according to the Elysée Palace. CARE is chaired by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, virologist at the Institut Pasteur / Inserm, who received the 2008 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the AIDS virus.

General Lizurey in charge of "audit"

On March 30, General Richard Lizurey was appointed "auditor" of crisis management. The former director general of the national gendarmerie attends the various crisis cells set up at the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and which are coordinated once a day by the director of cabinet of the cabinet. Prime Minister, Benoît Ribadeau-Dumas.

It must "ensure the fluidity of the link between these national cells and the local level, that is to say with the regional health agencies, the prefectures," according to Matignon. "He is an auditor to allow continuous improvement".

Accustomed to crisis management in the field, Richard Lizurey was mobilized during the explosion of the AZF factory in Toulouse in 2001, at the head of the Haute-Garonne group. He was also in Ouvéa, in New Caledonia, during the hostage-taking in 1988. In the spring of 2018, he piloted the evacuation of the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

Jean Castex, to prepare for the deconfinement

On April 2, after two weeks of confinement, the government appointed Jean Castex to prepare for the deconfinement. According to Edouard Philippe, he is "a senior civil servant who knows the world of health perfectly and who is formidable in efficiency".

Mayor Les Républicains de Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales), and close to Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean Castex was director of hospitalization and organization of care at the Ministry of Solidarity and Social Cohesion, in 2005-2006. He was also director of cabinet to Xavier Bertrand at the Ministry of Health (2006-2007), during the H1N1 virus, then at Work (2007-2008). Before being named "Mister deconfinement" of the government, he was interministerial delegate at the Paris-2024 Olympic Games.

He will have to work on "several scenarios ", in order to answer this "essential" question: "How do we decide to live in deconfinement with a disease which it is almost certain that it will not have completely disappeared by the time we go deconfining? ", Indicates Matignon.

The Academy of Medicine

Independent, it brings together several hundred members and aims to advise the government on its public health policy. On April 3, the academy decided to recognize Covid-19 as an occupational disease, under certain conditions. The government is also in favor.

It also "recommended that the wearing of a general public mask, also known as an alternative mask, be made compulsory for the outings necessary during the confinement period", and of deconfinement, as of April 2. But at this stage, the executive did not wish to follow this advice.

Cov # Covid19 #Masques The Academy of Medicine recommends that the wearing of #MASQUES #GrandPublic "alternative" be #OBLIGATORY #POURTOUS during and at the end of #confinement
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