Canal Detox

Tests for everyone, really?

Deconfinement is now well under way. At the heart of the system is a promise: massive testing of the population to isolate people contaminated by Covid-19 and stop the epidemic. But these tests, what exactly are they? Are they reliable? Will everyone be entitled to them? And will they tell us if we’re immune once […]

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Le 28 May 2020 | By INSERM (Newsroom)

Publié le 20 May 2020

SARS-CoV-2: Will Summer Really Mean the End of It?

Will SARS-CoV-2 die out with the arrival of summer? With the current lifting of lockdown restrictions, some are hoping that the warm weather will herald a decrease in the R0, as is the case with other viruses whose transmission is better documented, such as those of seasonal influenza. The issue of viral seasonality has long […]

Publié le 28 Jul 2020

The increased reproductive rate of the virus heralding a second wave, really?

While the virus is still circulating throughout the country with 610 clusters detected since 9 May 2020 according to the Directorate General for Health (DGS), fears of a “second wave” are growing. In order to better understand the epidemic dynamics, several indicators are taken into account by epidemiologists and health authorities. One of them, the […]

Publié le 02 Jul 2020

Artemisia miracle plant, really?

Native to Asia, the Artemisia plant has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. Nearly 400 species of the plant now grow around the world, including Artemisia annua (annual mugwort). It is from this species that artemisinin is extracted, the active ingredient contained in the main antimalarial treatments used to treat the disease […]

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