Covid-19: "Containment has been more beneficial to some categories than others"

ANALYSIS

It is an investigation which traces with acuity the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on French society in the spring: the results of this major investigation by Inserm, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, underline an increase in social inequalities within the population due to this health crisis.

Beyond this impact, the confinement imposed from March 17 to May 11 had differentiated effects according to social categories, explain sociologist Nathalie Bajos and epidemiologist Josiane Warszawski at the microphone of Europe 1, Saturday evening.

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"Relocation of the social profile"

The confinement of the population has generated "a phenomenon of displacement of the social profile of the epidemic", advances Nathalie Bajos, sociologist and research director at Inserm: "Before confinement, it is essentially the most privileged social categories who have been in contact with the virus, such as senior executives who went out more and had more social interactions, through their jobs and places of socialization. When containment was put in place, it was more beneficial to certain categories than to others and in particular more beneficial to senior executives than to the most disadvantaged categories. "

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A figure testifies to this "accentuation of social inequalities" from mid-March: "During confinement, 50% of executives worked exclusively at home while this percentage is 1% for people who come under the working class" , observes Nathalie Bajos.