The former Minister of Health reveals in a 500-page “Diary” the first six months of the health crisis, from January to June 2020. She was the guest of France Inter.
“I did everything I knew and could do“at the Ministry of Health at the start of the coronavirus epidemic, argues this Wednesday on France Inter Agnès Buzyn, former Minister of Health, while her “Newspaper“(Flammarion).
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In this logbook of nearly 500 pages, the former minister takes stock of the first six months of the health crisis, from January to June 2020. She hopes with this book “give the French a part of their history” and show “the incredible mobilization of the Ministry of Health“.
Agnès Buzyn recalls that at the start of the epidemic, “there was a denial from international institutions, a very great difficulty for Europe to take into account the seriousness of the situation and a difficulty for many scientists who spoke at that time to realize what was going to happen to us“.
“Period of doubt”
With this book, the doctor intends to deliver her part of the truth about the health crisis and show that she had sensed the seriousness of the crisis very early on. She describes this period as “period of doubt“, because she then had “the impression that no one believed it“.”In a political exercise, you cannot go against scientific institutions or public opinion, and it is this difficulty that this book highlights“, she defends herself on France Inter.
The former minister assures that at the time, she “think about Covid and act to prepare the country night and day“. Agnès Buzyn maintains that “text exchanges bear witness to this“and moreover many SMS messages are cited in the book.”It is a purely factual, chronological book, in which I provide all the elements that are in the legal file“, she adds, before specifying that “all this work is at the Court of Justice of the Republic“.
At the end of January, the Court of Cassation in fact canceled the indictment for endangering the lives of others of Agnès Buzyn in the investigation into the management of the coronavirus epidemic by the authorities. The former minister is placed under the status of assisted witness in an investigation for “voluntary abstention from fighting a disaster”.