“This coronavirus is not that bad”

Famous for his style and his outspokenness as much as for the quality of his research, the professor of microbiology Didier Raoult directs in Marseille the IHU Mediterranean infection. The one whose team watches over the families held in quarantine in Carry-le-Rouet (Bouches-du-Rhône) refuses to consider the Wuhan virus as “a blind murderer”. “In the age of hyper-responsive social media, politicians are afraid of not doing enough, so they sometimes do too much,” he said.

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This virus is not that bad, it is not a blind murderer. The mortality rate, estimated today at around 2%, that is to say equivalent to that of all viral pneumonias present in the hospital, will probably decrease once the cases which have not given symptoms will be taken into account. Without being a soothsayer, I doubt that the Chinese virus will significantly increase, among us at least, deaths from pneumonia. But we cannot ignore the state of our very emotional society. In the age of hyper-responsive social media, politicians are afraid of not doing enough, so they sometimes do too much. Should we blame them? In our aging country, no one surrenders … “data-reactid =” 20 “>Eleven years ago, in the midst of the H1N1 crisis, Professor Bernard Debré joked in the JDD: “It remains a grippette”. Is the government doing too much?
This virus is not that bad, it is not a blind murderer. The mortality rate, estimated today at around 2%, that is to say equivalent to that of all viral pneumonias present in the hospital, will probably decrease once the cases which have not given symptoms will be taken into account. Without being a soothsayer, I doubt that the Chinese virus will significantly increase, among us at least, deaths from pneumonia. But we cannot ignore the state of our very emotional society. In the age of hyper-responsive social media, politicians are afraid of not doing enough, so they sometimes do too much. Should we blame them? In our aging country, no one surrenders …

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