The video extract only lasts a few seconds, but it greatly amuses some Internet users who are convinced that vaccination against Covid-19 would be either useless or downright dangerous.
We see, during a press point, a “head of ARS” (Regional Health Agency) affirming, in front of the multiple microphones installed in front of her: “We have a huge reservoir of people to contaminate! “
When you realize that you have just told a truth, without your knowledge: ARS manager shamefully lowers his head, after having taken out his meatball! pic.twitter.com/966Oh0Pra4
– Anton_Ar_Fur® (@fur_anton) October 10, 2021
“When you realize that you have just told a truth, without your knowledge: [une] head of ARS [Agence régionale de santé] shamefully lowers his head, after taking out his meatball! “, Laughs, in the caption, one of the many Twitter users to have shared this sequence without further context.
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This extract is authentic: it is taken from the press conference given jointly on July 28, 2021 by the director of the ARS of Guadeloupe, Valérie Denux, and by the prefect of Guadeloupe, Alexandre Rochatte. This forty-minute public speech remains fully viewable on the Facebook page of our colleagues from Guadeloupe La 1ère.
After having given a long summary of the local health situation, then very “worrying” according to Alexandre Rochatte, Valérie Denux comes to discuss the vaccination rate against Covid-19 among the population, in a context very different from that that suggests the viral extract.
“So we’re going to talk about vaccination, of course. The vaccination is very weak, and suddenly, with the contaminations that we have, it is the announced disaster. We have a huge reservoir of people to contaminate! »She thus affirms (from 13’23).
Without this last sentence necessarily being a slip of the tongue in view of the rest of his remarks (truncated in the shared extract), since it insists precisely on the considerable number of people at risk of being infected: “Vaccination in Guadeloupe, today, for adults, over 18 years of age, is 27.77% for the first injection. For adolescents between 12 and 18, it is 5.81%. So in total, the population overall, for the first injection, it is of the order of 21% and with the two injections carried out, it is below 20%. So how do you expect us to be protected with that? “
A duo at the heart of a controversy during another press conference
“The anti-vaccines do a lot of harm and endanger Guadeloupe”, then adds the head of the ARS, after having already castigated their influence in the public debate.
Despite this cry of alarm, the deterioration of the health situation continued, since Guadeloupe was finally reconfigured from August 4, 2021. Just days after another press conference by the prefect of Guadeloupe and the head of the ARS of Guadeloupe was controversial, the first having been caught whispering to Valérie Denux to adopt “a grave and catastrophic tone”.