"It was going to become a riot": Michel Cymes expresses his regrets after his remarks on masks and Covid-19: Current Woman The MAG

Antidote. This is the name of the new Health program presented by Michel Cymes, and broadcast from February 21, 2021 on France 2. If he has not yet found the antidote to Covid-19, the most famous doctor of the French audiovisual landscape has apparently found the miracle recipe to shine on TV. Asked Friday February 5, 2020 by The Dauphiné released on the occasion of the launch of this new talk show on health, science and medicine, the faithful friend of Marina Carrère d'Encausse returned to the controversy over masks, which marked the start of the coronavirus pandemic, in March 2020. Invited to speak on March 19, 2020 in the program C to you, Michel Cymes had already done his mea culpa: "I should have alarmed a little more, I should have worried a little more." A few weeks later, in May, it was his colleague and friend Marina Carrrère d´Encausse who defended him on this subject during an interview with Leisure TV. “The outcry is always easy ”, then launched Marina Carrère d´Encausse. “At first, it was difficult to appreciate the severity of this epidemic. We didn't think it was going to evolve like this. ” Today, the host, who has already received his two doses of the vaccine, once again expresses his regret.

"I didn’t live up to the trust and great credibility people have in me medically", admits Michel Cymes

“Since the start of the crisis, the healthcare community has been increasingly prone to false or incomplete information which ends up creating doubt in the minds of the public”, begins first Michel Cymes to present Antidote. “The only way you can still talk about health today on TV is to do it in a relaxed, fun, rewarding, and playful way.” He goes on to explain what the pandemic has taught him. “For the medical informant that I am, it totally called into question my way of doing this job because quite frankly, I did not live up to the confidence and the great credibility that people give me on the medically – due to my huge popularity ”, he admits. At the start of the crisis, I gave information that I was trying to popularize but which was not good. I was relying on the scientific knowledge at the time, which turned out to be inaccurate. ” Michel Cymes adds: I was then stuck with the word 'grippette' which I never said. Example I remember: At the very beginning of the debates on the Covid, on France 2, I relayed the information from the scientific world and from the Ministry of Health which says that masks are useless if we are not symptomatic oneself. As I say this, I myself think it doesn't make a lot of sense … But I say it because anyway, at the time, we didn't have a mask. ” And to conclude: “If I had said in front of millions of viewers what to wear, what would have happened? There were already break-ins in hospitals… It was going to become a riot. ” Fault confessed is half redressed ?

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