Vaccination: the comfortable remuneration of doctors
To put an end to the “windfall effect” of vaccination for health professionals, the French health insurance system has introduced a fixed fee per session since April 15.
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Vaccines: side effects explode in Touraine
In a few weeks, the Regional Pharmacovigilance Center of Tours has been flooded with reports of adverse reactions to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Worrying!
Hydrogen trains: a gadget for the greenies?
The SNCF today announced an order for 14 TER trains with mixed power. The electric motors of these trains can be powered either by the catenary or by a hydrogen fuel cell that will take over on non-electrified tracks.
Assault on the Tapie couple: “They knew who they were going to”.
The businessman and former minister Bernard Tapie and his wife Dominique were badly beaten during a burglary of their home in Combs-la-Ville (Seine et Marne) in the night of Saturday 3 to Sunday, April 4, 2021. Invited to CNews, their son, Laurent, indicates that the burglars seemed well informed.
Covid-19: Red alert in April
The peak of the 3rd wave is expected on April 18, 2021, according to mathematical projections by the University of Washington’s IHME, when there could be more than 600 deaths per day in saturated hospitals.
Nancy : Fired because of Covid
“Do you realize what a mess you’ve made? “This is how an employee of the ByMyCar company in Nancy-Laxou (54) was greeted by her manager after a period of isolation due to Covid.
ROHM Route: The anti-COVID citizens’ initiative
A Citizen’s Network continues to collect Hand Hygiene Observations (HHOs) in a fun and informative way via an online questionnaire: participate to raise awareness! A new questionnaire
The NGO ONE denounces the lack of access to vaccines in poor countries
ONE, the NGO fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, has enlisted artists from around the world to play the characters in Pandemica, an animated mini-series that exposes inequities in access to Covid-19 vaccines.
RSF files lawsuit in France accusing Facebook of “deceptive commercial practices”
In a lawsuit filed with the public prosecutor in Paris on 22 march 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses Facebook of “deceptive commercial practices” on the grounds that the social media company’s promises to provide a “safe” and “error-free” online environment are contradicted by the large-scale proliferation of hate speech and false information on its networks.
Barometer “hygiene and precariousness in France
Hygiene insecurity is a factor of social exclusion that persists and worsens among the most vulnerable. Today, three million French people go without basic hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper…
Covid: meals officially incriminated
The vice is tightening around the places and situations of contamination of Covid-19. In a recent study, the Pasteur Institute targets contamination in enclosed spaces and during meals. Interview with Dr. Jean-Michel Wendling, Occupational Health Specialist in Strasbourg.
Bygmalion: another test for Nicolas Sarkozy
Only two weeks after his heavy conviction in the first instance in the case known as “wiretapping”, the former president of the Republic appears again before the correctional court, from March 17, 2021, this time in the case of illegal financing of his campaign in 2012.