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Conversation with Mircea Sofonea: "Today, the spread of the virus is exponential".
Published on: March 19, 2021
What's the latest on the epidemic in our country? What are we to make of the measures announced on Thursday...
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# La Science s'aMuse: Sars Cov-2 and its variants
Published on: March 04, 2021
Welcome to a new edition of La science s'aMuse, the science program co-produced...
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Thierry Lefrançois from CIRAD is the first veterinary surgeon to be appointed to the Covid-19 French Scientific Advisory Board.
Published on: February 17, 2021
Thierry Lefrançois, veterinary surgeon, specialist in networks and integrated approaches to health...
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Mircea Sofonea: "Modeling is a form of quantitative data analysis like any other, not a divinatory practice".
Published on: February 16, 2021
Mircea Sofonea is an epidemiologist in the Infectious Diseases and...
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Managing absenteeism in public hospitals: the deleterious effects of overly fragile solutions
Published on: February 08, 2021
In 2020, the absenteeism rate in French hospitals averaged between 9.5% and...
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My small business will weather the crisis
Published on: January 25, 2021
A survey of business leaders reveals that while the health crisis has increased the...
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Plastic pandemic: a step backwards
Published on: January 22, 2021
The timid wave of "deplastication" that began a few years ago has been overwhelmed by...
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In the Mood for CoV
Published on: January 20, 2021
Improving global health monitoring and speeding up decision-making by providing...
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Africa out of Corona
Published on: January 18, 2021
But what's happening in Africa? To answer this question, a test...
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Covid-19: "We must absolutely avoid the English variant becoming the majority variant".
Published on: January 15, 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, previously designated VUI202012/01 (for...
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"If we don't change, it will happen again".
Published on: January 07, 2021
"Totally predictable". This is how Serge Morand* characterizes the...
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Price transparency could improve the effectiveness of the vaccination campaign
Published on: January 07, 2021
In mid-December, shortly before the start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Europe, Eva...
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# La Science s'aMuse: From the psychology of barrier gestures to quarantine insects
Published on: January 06, 2021
Welcome to La science s'aMuse, the science show co-produced by the UM and...
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What health measures are the French prepared to accept?
Published on: January 06, 2021
New Year's Eve parties with small groups or cancelled, families scattered and isolated,...
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Bats under the radar
Published on: January 04, 2021
Better knowledge of coronaviruses present in bats for better prevention, anticipation...
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In the coronavirus family, I ask...
Published on: December 28, 2020
How do we know that SARS-CoV-2 is descended from the same coronavirus "ancestor" as...