We are “at the beginning of a new era”, marked by a “controlled circulation of the virus” of Covid-19 and, from time to time, “epidemic peaks” giving rise to restrictions, estimates the president of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, in an interview with our colleagues from Parisian. “We are in the process of finishing with Omicron”, he affirms, specifying that “if the good figures continue, considering lifting the vaccination pass from the spring seems to me to be possible”.
The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, also mentioned on Wednesday a reduction in the vaccination pass on this date, if the circulation of the virus is “very weak”.
“This is the model that is starting to take shape”
“Two years later, we are emerging from the crisis stage to enter a chronic phase. We are going to move slowly, probably in the fall, towards an endemic situation, with controlled circulation of the virus, but with occasional epidemic peaks due to the appearance of new variants. Clearly, we will live for a long time with Sars-Cov-2, but in a different way, ”he continues.
According to him, “with a high level of vaccination and reminders, living with Covid-19 means (…) having an almost normal life, letting the virus circulate provided that the level of contamination is not too high. And resume temporary restriction measures during an epidemic recovery ”.
“Living with the virus may also mean getting out of this notion of obligation, which has been necessary until now. And finally get citizens to manage their lives themselves according to the level of the epidemic. You can’t ask the same thing of an 18-year-old or someone who is old. It will be up to citizens to choose (to remove the mask, for example, editor’s note), to assess the risk ”.
However, the President of the Scientific Council warns: “it is not because the disease is endemic that it is not serious! It will take a long time for Sars-Cov-2 to become as mild as other coronaviruses. There will be times of high viral circulation, ”he recalls.
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