For a minister, each trip is an opportunity to chant a message, and only one to be audible. Taking this rule of communication a little too literally, the Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder, did not escape the big blunder this Friday. His visit to the emergency room of Cochin hospital this morning owes nothing to chance: almost everywhere in France, the flu epidemic is putting hospital workers under great pressure, to the point of having already forced 87 health establishments to activate their plan white, according to the latest figures from the ministry.
“Not too late for the vaccine”
In this difficult context, the new tenant of rue de Ségur must be proactive. As he walks through the gates of the Parisian hospital, Neuder has his text firmly in mind. The same morning, he spoke with the virologist member of Covars, Bruno Lina. To relieve the public hospital at this stage of the epidemic, the only way is to “remember the importance of barrier gestures”, slipped the latter to him. Yannick Neuder intends to hammer home this message. Upon his arrival, he recommends to everyone to “greet each other from a distance, avoid kissing, sneezing into your elbow and wearing a mask in confined places and on public transport”. Repeatedly in the emergency department control room. “But prevention also involves going
