Is France Once Again Looking for a Scapegoat?

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Published: Dec 29, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20411/pai.v6i2.490
Keywords:
COVID-19;, pandemic response; , public health;, epidemiology;, Cour de Justice de la Republique;, PCR;, facemasks;, inquest

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Michael M. Lederman
Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Jeffrey S. Flier
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Peter Hale
Foundation for Vaccine Research, Washington DC
Ashley T. Haase
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
William Powderly
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Peter Reiss
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guido Silvestri
Emory University, Yerkes Primate Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Rafick P. Sekaly
Emory University, Yerkes Primate Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Mirko Paiardini
Emory University, Yerkes Primate Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Drew Weissman
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daniel R. Kuritzkes
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Leonard H. Calabrese
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Peter Agre
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Gustavo Reyes-Teran
National Institutes of Health, Mexico City, Mexico
Alan L. Landay
Rush University, Chicago, Illinois
Sharon Lewin
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia
Douglas D. Richman
University of California San Diego, San Diego, California
Paul Volberding
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Peter W. Hunt
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Mauro Schechter
Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

On September 10, 2021, a special tribunal established by the French government launched an inquiry into the activities of former health minister Dr. Agnes Buzyn who was charged with “endangering the lives of others”. It is surprising to learn of this accusation and inquiry into the actions of a public health official whose response to the epidemic was, to all appearances, exemplary. 

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Michael M. Lederman, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Lederman has served as intern, resident, chief resident in Medicine and fellow in Infectious Diseases at Case Western Reserve University where he joined the faculty in 1980. He is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.

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