2023-09-06 08:13:58
Epidemic Log
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Epidemic journal, by Christian LehmanndossierChristian Lehmann is a doctor and writer. For “Liberation”, he chronicles a society long traversed by the coronavirus. For epidemiologist Dominique Costagliola, “the authorities decided that we had done enough for the Covid and that we had to move on”.
At the dawn of this new school year, with a significant summer viral circulation, we wanted to interview Dominique Costagliola, epidemiologist and biostatistician, director of research emeritus at the Pierre-Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Grand Prix Inserm 2020 for its investment in research once morest the Covid.
What to think of this new BA.2.86 variant, which is the subject of sustained attention from the international community because of its very different genetic profile from the lineages described so far, Public Health France tells us, adding that “a single sequence was detected in France on a flash sample of August 21, 2023”?
Each time we replay the same score. When a country that is still somewhat concerned regarding public health and maintains active surveillance announces the detection of a new variant, the other countries look into the matter and, of course, realize that it is widespread everywhere, well beyond the rare cases identified. This time it’s Denmark; and France plays the good students by saying “we detected it too but it remains marginal, do not worry”. Reminds me of this tweet from T. Ryan Gregory, Canadian genome biologist:
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