We don't stop it anymore! Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, Michel Cymes has been on television appearances. He even devoted a program to the epidemic in order to "to reassure" the French, calling the coronavirus a disease "a little more serious than the flu". Comments that had led him to make a mea culpa live on France 5, many doctors having accused him of overly minimizing the situation. Philippe Even, French pulmonologist and author of Corruption and gullibility in medicine, had even stated in The Parisian that the famous PAF doctor said "whatever". Well, Monday March 23, 2020, Michel Cymes was back, once again on the set of C to you to discuss the topic that has fueled all our conversations for the past two weeks: the coronavirus.
The fed up of Internet users
In the company of ex-Minister of Health Roselyne Bachelot, Michel Cymes addressed the controversy over the works of Didier Raoult, the infectious disease specialist who claims that he can cure covid-19 with a treatment based on chloroquine. "There is still a cardiac toxicity, a toxicity for the eyes, finally it is not a harmless drug that we can give like that" alert the presenter of It won't come out of here. "We need surveillance" he adds facing Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
The doctor did not hesitate to describe the mayor of Nice as"irresponsible" following his statements extolling the research of Didier Raoult, from which he himself benefited. Comments that made internet users react, annoyed to once again see Michel Cymes giving truths on a TV set "while hospitals lack arms". "The bachelor couple, cymes a duo of shock! For medical info, there is also the horoscope!" can we read on Twitter. Or "It was Michel Cymes, the doctor who has a practice on France 2, who said that the covid was a big flu, who will give lessons to a great virologist!" writes a surfer. Critics who do not seem to affect Michel Cymes who is not ready to abandon the media!
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