The Yellow Vest movement, transport strikes, countless demonstrations against his bills such as pension reform or global security … Since coming to power in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has experienced many crises. But it has now been a year since the President of the Republic – like all the leaders of the world – has had to deal with an unprecedented situation: the Covid-19 pandemic. Although he can count on the help of his ministers, notably Jean Castex and Olivier Véran, it is he who bears the heavy responsibility of making the decisions and announcing them to the French. Since the start of 2021, the government has questioned whether or not re-containment would be the solution. Wednesday February 24, Emmanuel Macron will try, like every week, to make choices during the Defense Council.
“A real bulimia” of scientific journals
But as our colleagues from the Parisian, the Head of State does not fail to sharpen his thinking … Emmanuel Macron therefore takes the time to examine the latest epidemiological trends, in France and in neighboring countries, the incidence rates in the most affected cities as well than the occupancy rate of intensive care units. But also, and above all, the President is keen to keep himself informed of all new discoveries on the coronavirus. Our colleagues even speak ofa "overconsumption ”, a "real bulimia ” scientific journals, French as well as international. From the British medical journal The Lancet, at British Medical Journal, through studies by Stanford researchers or analyzes of the Journal of the American Medical Association… Emmanuel Macron devours these specialized magazines in their original language, and sometimes shares them with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health.
“The President reads everything scientific on the subject, questions experts and searches every day for what is happening again so as not to miss anything”, says Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly, before joking: “One day he may run for the immunology aggregation. " But this need for information would almost turn into an obsession: “He is obsessed with trying not to make mistakes”, confides a relative of Emmanuel Macron. “At this rate, you will become even more specialist than us… ”, The president of the scientific council would have amused himself at a conference on vaccines, when Emmanuel Macron had just cited an English study that the other members had not yet examined. “I'm not sending him anything because I suspect that what I see, he must have already had it in hand three days before ”, explains one of the government ministers in the columns of the Parisian.
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