2024-03-17 13:49:25
Four years after the start of the first confinement, the Covid-19 period already seems to be in the past. However, according to Jean-François Delfraissy, former president of the scientific council, we could experience new viruses as powerful as the coronavirus in the future.
“The answer is yes”, for the professor of medicine. Guest of the show Sunday Focus on RTL this Sunday, March 17, he explained why the risk remains significant: “I think that there will very likely be a new crisis in the short and medium term. Because our world has changed, we are now in this vision of global health interactions between the animal, plant and human world.
“Our world means that, for reasons that we do not yet know very well, there are breakdowns in species barriersbetween viruses which exist in animals and which suddenly can pass to humans”, continued the doctor, who nevertheless draws several lessons from the coronavirus crisis.
Could we experience new viruses as powerful as the coronavirus? ” The answer is yes “
Jean-François Delfraissy, former president of the scientific council at the microphone of @mohamedbouhafsi in “Focus Sunday” on #RTL 📻 pic.twitter.com/AFwdBFaV1s
— RTL France (@RTLFrance) March 17, 2024
“The first is that we must invest a lot in fundamental research, go on subjects that we do not know, without preconceptions”, he said in particular at the microphone of Mohamed Bouhafsi. “The second is that we have to plan for the worst. We need to anticipate scenarios […] By telling yourself that It won’t happen, but we have to anticipate.”
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