In this new episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon reviews the innovations linked to Covid, with Stéphanie Benz, Health journalist at L’Express, and Anne-Claude Crémieux, infectious disease specialist and author of the book Citizens have the right to know (Fayard).
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The team: Xavier Yvon (writing and presentation), Ambre Rosala (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Music and design: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Image credits: Christophe Archambault/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: Among the titles that the La Loupe team considered for this episode, there were also old adages: “good for bad”, or “good always comes out of bad”… Because if the Covid pandemic -19 has wreaked havoc around the world, killing more than 7 million people so far… it has also caused scientific progress…
The first of them is in three letters that we all know very well now: RNA… It is the revolutionary technique which has made it possible to develop anti-Covid vaccines in record time…
Chantal Pichon: “Because of this pandemic, we have been able to effectively demonstrate that these messenger RNA molecules have the potential to really change the face of medicine.”
We have already devoted an episode of La Loupe to the fabulous promises of messenger RNA, which could eventually cure certain cancers, for example… It was with the biologist Chantal Pichon that you have just heard…
But it is not the only innovation obtained thanks to the Covid which will “change the face of medicine”… far from it…
Thanks to what scientists have developed during the crisis, tomorrow’s epidemics will be better monitored, and even our daily health will be improved… In this episode, it will be about waste water, telephone antennas, and you learn how high-flow oxygen therapy could one day save your life.
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