In an interview with Gala, the emergency doctor Gérald Kierzek spoke about the government strategy to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic which does not weaken at the dawn of 2022. According to him, there is a certain dissonance between the wishes of the French president and actions taken by the Minister of Health.
Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor, has become a popular television personality since the start of the health crisis. Known for its outspoken, the healthcare professional, who is now also regular consultant for LCI and TF1, has repeatedly given his point of view regarding the pandemic management. But the latter also unveiled the backstage of decision makings on the subject. In an interview with Gala on December 8, he reported on‘a certain mess on the part of the members of the government: “I am not in contact with him (Editor’s note: with Olivier Véran), but I think thathe There is a real divide between the position of Emmanuel Macron and that of his government.”
While the symbolic bar of 100,000 contaminations per day has been crossed, the government will form yet another health defense council Monday, December 27 at 4 p.m. in order to consider possible new measures. New confinement, postponement of the return to class in January or curfew? Doubts hover still on the changes to come especially as the entourage of Emmanuel Macron has shown signs of discrepancy in the past, as Gérald Kierzek suggested: “In January 2021, the government wanted to confine, but not the president.”And to continue:“There is on one side alarmists, with Olivier Véran or Bruno Le Maire, and on the other, a president who has risen to the top and who is eager to get out of ‘panic mode’.”
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A relative of the Élysée
If Gérald Kierzek seems to have an overview on the management of the crisis and its actors, it is that the doctor maintains special links with the presidential couple. Indeed, he thus entrusted us her regular exchanges with Brigitte Macron : “We have a very special relationship. […] On have lunch together from time to time”, Underlined the emergency physician who would do“feedback from the field“to the first lady.
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