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Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo)
The health bill examined by the National Assembly this night included article 2, specific to the health pass at the borders, which provided for the possibility of imposing it at the borders and for travel with Corsica or overseas, until January 2023. It was rejected by MPs. What are the health risks for the French? The opinion of Dr Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo.
219 votes against, 195 for. Article 2 of the health bill, which provided for the possibility of imposing a health pass until January 2023, was forcefully rejected by the deputies of the National Assembly.
Indeed, they chose to vote against this bill which provides “the temporary maintenance of the monitoring and health security system in the fight against covid-19″. Article 1, which was adopted earlier in the evening, allows however, due to a still fragile epidemic situation, to continue to collect health data on screening tests (SI-DEP device).
An “unjustified” health decision
Beyond the political divisions that this question generates, the real problem that interests the French is their health! What is the risk from a health point of view, not to renew the obligation of a health pass at the borders?
When asked, Dr Kierzek believes that this decision to renew a border health pass is a “unjustified decision”. “We have seen that the health pass does not prevent the appearance of new waves of the virus, nor the appearance of new variants and certainly does not prevent contamination either. On the other hand, it must be recognized, he was a tremendous booster in pushing people to get vaccinated” explains the doctor.
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Improving other measures
If for Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, “the hour is serious”, Dr Kierzek calls for all other measures to be put in place: “Instead of a health pass and anxiety-provoking and not necessarily effective health measures, it is more important in my opinion to better take care of patients in hospitals and to better teach them barrier gestures, the ventilation of premises… measures that make more sense from a medical point of view, in short” concludes the doctor.