How to wash well? How to protect yourself from Covid-19? What are the health challenges of this crisis? What are the safety measures to take in case of symptoms? What to do during containment? Since the global spread of the coronavirus, for continuous news channels, social networks and even celebrities … the pandemic has become THE unavoidable subject of the moment, and rightly so. Not a day goes by without the number of deaths and people affected increasing.
Faced with this dramatic information and the unprecedented situation that France is experiencing like the rest of the world, doctors are alarmed about the risks of general anxiety. Among them, Michel Cymes offers a radical solution so as not to create a more anxiety-provoking climate than it already is: “Stop with death rates and figures ”. In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche on Sunday March 22, 20202 the 62-year-old ORL believes that “It is unnecessarily anxiety-provoking. Because on TV, when it’s balanced, it’s balanced. The result: a fourfold increase in calls to Samu since the start of the crisis. ”
Michel Cymes considers duty "debug fake news”
Thus, he believes that his role and that of his colleagues is to “reassuring on the one hand, raising awareness on the other. And debug the fake news ”. For him, only one watchword: “Se keep all intuition and stay in evidence ”. The most popular PAF doctor, Michel Cymes continues the voluntary appearances on television sets to keep the French informed and to give them his advice. Monday March 16, it was on the set of C to you son mea culpa after having underestimated the risks of the coronavirus at the start of its spread on French soil.
“Probably the message is not well passed, I do my mea culpa too, I probably reassured the French too much", he explained to Anne-Elizabeth Lemoine.“But at the same time, how can we worry them excessively when we have no data, 15 days ago, which allow us to say that it will be as catastrophic as today? ”, he was trying to defend himself.
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