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Day 41

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The Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will present the deconfinement plan to the National Assembly on Tuesday at 3 p.m. There will be 6 main themes: health (masks, tests, isolation…), school, work, shops, transport and gatherings. This plan will then be submitted to the Assembly for debate and vote.

I can already hear all the critics which will follow. I guess I shall avoid TV and radio for a little while.

The Scientific Council gave its recommendations on Friday afternoon. I have a copy of the document in French of course. You are welcome to have a look. If I find the ~~time~~, energy I shall make a resume of the main points.

The daily DB

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France

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Occitanie

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Information & News

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▶︎ Masks

As the deconfinement approaches, we shall now be able to buy masks in pharmacies. A decree was published on Saturday in the Journal Officiel, amending the public health code that determines the list of goods that pharmacists can sell.

▶︎ Changing habits

During the confinement, the French keep themselves busy as they can, sometimes find new passions or simply change their way of life. Here’s what the numbers say about these changes in behaviour.

They make bread and cakes
They are drinking more beer but less champagne.
They are putting money away
They play more video games
They are changing the way they shop
They are rediscovering television
They play money online

▶︎ Statistics

The Coronavirus has already caused more than 203,000 deaths worldwide, including 26,000 in Italy and nearly 23,000 in France and Spain. Figures that are certainly far from the truth. For everywhere, the balance sheets are disputed.

In Italy, for example, the death toll is said to be higher by at least 10,000, including 7,000 in Lombardy alone. In 2019, at the same time, Lombardy recorded 11,000 deaths between 22 February and 4 April, compared with 27,000 this year. A difference of 16,000 deaths of which 9,000 are officially due to Covid-19. And the other 7,000?

Many were not declared because they occurred at home or were the result of pathologies that were not properly treated because of overcrowded hospitals. The number of deaths from heart attacks in Italy increased fourfold during the epidemic, as those affected did not dare to go to hospital. Not to mention the people who died in old people’s homes because of the coronavirus, which is largely underestimated. The judiciary has opened investigations throughout the country.

The covid-19 is a nightmare for statisticians. The quality of the data is poor: “We don’t know if someone has died of cancer or covid-19 as long as they test positive and it won’t show up in the final statistic. Every country has its own way of testing and counting deaths. It is simply impossible to compare Germany and Italy,” says Dmitri Djanov, head of the Demographic Data Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

The German institute will make available within two weeks a record of weekly (“all-cause”) mortality data from six to eight countries since 2010 that can be used as a basis for measuring the impact of the pandemic on a country’s total mortality. Developed with Berkeley and INED, the “Human Mortality Dabatase” should eventually include 20 to 25 countries. “There are no correct data. This is a real problem when you consider the weight of containment measures and the economic impact of the pandemic. Governments need as much information as possible as they start to deconfine.”

▶︎ EU v USA

Despite the comments above, based on the existing data, Europe is still experiencing more than double the amount of deaths compared to the USA.

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