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"It is only a small effort to avoid the worst afterwards." Antoine Pelissolo, professor of psychiatry at the CHU Créteil, is one of the fourteen doctors who signed a column published in the columns of Le Parisien on Sunday , demanding that the wearing of the mask be made compulsory in closed public places. "People are thinking less and less about the epidemic but on the ground, we see that consultations are increasing," he warns.
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"Masked but free"
To encourage, he said, a "collective awareness", the doctors who signed the tribune launched a hashtag: "masked but free". "It is better to protect yourself immediately with a mask rather than having to go through a period of contamination and restriction of freedoms", supports Antoine Pelissolo, who adds: "We can keep the carefree summer as long as we respect this barrier gesture. "
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Co-signatory of the tribune, the health columnist of Europe 1 Jimmy Mohamed explained a little earlier on the air, "we know that the virus is very contagious in closed spaces, precisely where there has been some relaxation : at the butcher where you get your meat, in cinemas, at the museum. " Doctors call for action beforehand, before a possible second wave becomes uncontrollable.