“I’m shocked”, the Minister of Health reacted this Wednesday, May 15 on the social network the former director of the ARS of Dordogne. Marie-Ange Perulli, invited to speak on the covid crisis during a conference of the independent Scientific Council, born from the anti-vax movement, in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), on May 8, estimated that she “had everything done to limit the opening of vaccination centers“ and that during this health crisis “the emergency rooms had not been overcrowded and there had not been more deaths in EHPADs”.
Frédéric Valletoux announced in his tweet that he had asked “for a complaint to be filed with the courts without delay”, he said. “deeply attached to scientific truth, he was shocked by these comments which shame all health professionals who worked tirelessly during the COVID crisis”.
Contacted by France Bleu Périgord, the minister’s office did not respond to our requests on the reason for the complaint which must be filed.
The ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine also reacted
This position relayed on the social network “confinement and curfew made it possible to reduce the transmission of the virus by 84%, vaccination helped prevent 159,000 deaths”.
Its director Benoît Ellboode has “deeply regretted the attack on the work and exemplary mobilization of employees and all caregivers during the covid crisis”. The director of the ARS also indicates “reserve the right to take appropriate action” following these remarks.
At the time of the covid crisis, Marie-Ange Perulli had just arrived in Dordogne. She took office on February 1, 2020, just a few weeks after the start of the first confinement. The former director of the Dordogne ARS described, during this conference, doctors who “followed national instructions without free will” and journalists “who were looking for the little beast” and with whom she had decided to communicate at least during the exercise of her functions.
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