While France is going through a second wave of coronavirus contamination, the latest forecasts from the Scientific Council are pessimistic.
He fears successive waves that could lead to an alternation between deconfinement and reconfinement, also called the "stop and go" policy.
To fight against Covid-19 contamination, France has been confined again since Friday.
Despite this, the latest forecasts from the Scientific Council are pessimistic.
According to them, this situation could last for many months.
In its latest opinion, the Scientific Council indeed fears several successive waves between the end of winter and next spring, which could lead, to curb the effects of the pandemic, to a "stop and go" policy, ie an alternation between confinement and deconfinement.
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"If the means are not put in, we are going towards successive reconfinements, of course. We must now be serious, learn the lessons of the deconfinement which was failed. We must also learn the lessons of the fact that we have not not enough resources and a health system that is not sufficiently robust. We must also have a policy of isolation, "warns Philippe Juvin, head of emergency at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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We should also better target the people to be tested.
Because for the moment, France is chasing the epidemic without ever succeeding in controlling it.
By announcing the re-containment at least until December 1, Emmanuel Macron indicated that the objective was to achieve 5,000 cases of contamination per day.
Or a circulation of the virus slowed down but not extinguished.
With this strategy, we go straight towards an alternation of deconfinement and reconfinement.