Outbreak Diary
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Christian Lehmann is a doctor and writer. For “Libération”, he chronicles a society crossed by the coronavirus.
Winter is back, very late if we are to believe the procession of “winter illnesses” which have been attacking us for more than two months, and some of which, like Covid, have continued to poison our lives even in the middle of August. Everyone gets sick again and again, but we are left in limbo. “It’s viral”, “it’s the flu”, “cepalcovid I took a test”. The results of the biological tests are clear, the flu currently represents only a small percentage of flu-like syndromes (sudden fever, severe fatigue, chills, colds, coughs, body aches, headaches). The Covid is spreading again among the population that the Ministry of Health and Prevention, between resigning applicant and interim with full hands, keeps in ignorance of the fact that with the current variants, the self-tests and the antigenic tests carried out in pharmacy have a false negative rate exceeding 60%. In other words, a negative result in the pharmacy