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France faces a true coronavirus emergency. An “Advent blockade”, from December 1 to 20, to ensure that Christmas celebrations in the family can take place with a reduced risk of transmission of the coronavirus: this is the proposal launched to the French authorities by two Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, in an editorial in the daily Le Monde. In her opinion, this “clear, uniform and transparent” option would reduce the risks of infection for the most vulnerable, including the elderly. According to the Duflo and Banerjee couple, who won the Nobel Prize in 2019 for their work on poverty reduction, such a lockdown would have limited impact on schools and would be less economically damaging than the “total cancellation of Christmas.” Or to a tighter lockdown later if the end-of-year holidays trigger a worse wave of infections. “People could be encouraged – they explained – to do their Christmas shopping in November.”
Covid, pessimistic French doctors
Yesterday’s data says there were 14,412 cases, not far from the 16,000 peak a few days ago. In France, “the second wave is coming faster than we feared.” The alarm was raised today by the president of the French medical order Patrick Bouet. If there are no changes “in three or four weeks”, France will have to “face a generalized epidemic”.
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Up to 700 deaths from coronavirus a day in Italy before 2021, 15 thousand infections a day in November and more than 40 thousand in December. This is the scenario posed by a study from the Worldometer website and reported by Fatto Quotidiano. Only greater attention from everyone would cut infections in half and limit deaths.
The outbreak is expected to last for long months in the fall and winter., with a health system “unable to respond to all requests,” Brouet warned in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche as the numbers of coronavirus contagion continue to grow throughout the country. “We have a test ahead of us. But health professionals, at the origin of the spring miracle, will not be able to remedy the structural deficiencies again, many are traumatized and exhausted, “Bouet stressed.
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