While some are sometimes considered alarmist about the current health situation, others prefer to be positive. In particular on the Omicron variant. According to Patrick Pelloux, the latter would be almost without risk for the vaccinated, but …
After the announcement of new measures to try to control the health crisis by Jean Castex, Gérald Kierzek wanted to be reassuring. For him, Omicron could even be “a chance“. If the emergency doctor often judges his colleagues alarmists, Patrick Pelloux follows suit. The president of the association of emergency physicians of France, guest of BFMTV this Sunday, January 2, confided that the variant Omicron is not dangerous for the vaccinated.
“For people who are vaccinated, Omicron appears to be really a benign pathology“, he said. Only, you have to be vaccinated. Patrick Pelloux has indeed taken advantage of his intervention to encourage the unvaccinated to”take the plunge“. The goal is not to overload hospitals either.”This raises ethical questions (…) Of course we treat everyone, but the problem we have is having the means to treat everyone. But we don’t have them“, he said.
“Forcing” the unvaccinated
The vaccine obligation, the doctor seems for. “We must force these four and a half million people who are not vaccinated to get vaccinated“, he alarmed, welcoming the transformation of the sanitary pass into a vaccination pass, which goes in this direction. On the other hand, the vaccinated not presenting any great risks, Patrick Pelloux is for the relaxation and the simplification of the rules of isolation, particularly for contact cases, rules that would end up “blocking hospitals”.
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