Fake news: Jean Castex mistakenly accused of being responsible for a “scandal”: Femme Actuelle Le MAG


Conspiracy theories and fake news … since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the statements circulating on social networks should be taken with a grain of salt. Since January 4, 2021, Prime Minister Jean Castex has been singled out for having played a leading role in the “H1N1 scandal, mass vaccination to Tamiflu for 1.5 billion for the benefit of Big Pharma “. On this post posted on Facebook and Twitter, it is indicated that “Jean Castex in 2009 was adviser to Sarkozy”, in the caption of a photo of the current head of government, all smiles alongside Nicolas Sarkozy. Only here, this assertion is incorrect.

To re-contextualize, the expression “Big Pharma” is used to designate the pharmaceutical industry in a global way, but especially to denounce pharmaceutical lobbying. According to this theory, pharmaceutical companies interact with authorities for financial gain. To support his point, the user whose publication has been around the Internet, mentions the Wikipedia page of Jean Castex. However, as several media such as 20 minutes and LCI, this page specifies that the current resident of Matignon, who has faced many criticisms since his last announcements to stop the spread of Covid-19, has not replaced “Raymond Soubie at social affairs adviser to the office of the President of the French Republic to Nicolas Sarkozy “, that“in November 2010”. November 22, 2010 exactly, as indicated by the Official newspaper, nearly ten months after the end of the H1N1 flu epidemic in France. At the time of this health crisis, it was none other than Roselyne Bachelot, currently Minister of Culture, who held the reins of the Ministry of Health.

Jean Castex: his experiences in the health sector

Before being appointed social affairs adviser to the cabinet of the President of the French Republic to Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean Castex was mayor of Prades, a small town of just over 6,000 inhabitants located in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Between 2004 and 2006, he served as director of hospitalization and care organization (current DGOS), and worked within the Ministry of Health from 2006 to 2007, under Jacques Chirac.

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