Joachim Forget's research while affiliated with Bibliothèque Nationale de France and other places

Publications (6)

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After an initial phase of low reactivity from the French public health authorities, in the face of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020, various Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) were put in place (strict stay-at-home orders, followed by mandatory mask wearing in public places, curfews, partial lockdowns, etc.). In our knowledge, no s...
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After an initial phase of low reactivity from the French public health authorities, in the face of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020, various Non Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) were put in place (strict stay-at-home orders, followed by mandatory mask wearing in public places, curfews, partial lockdowns, etc.). In our knowledge, no s...
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This opinion paper reports on the responses of governments worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing some of the many direct and indirect side effects of the non-pharmaceutical interventions, side effects that have received insufficient attention in the public debate. The goal is to serve as an alert concerning many new global health concerns...
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This opinion paper reports on the responses of governments worldwide to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing some of the many direct and indirect side effects of the non-pharmaceutical interventions, side effects that have received insufficient attention in the public debate. The goal is to serve as an alert concerning many new global health concerns...
Article
The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease is a contagious acute respiratory infectious disease whose causative agent has been demonstrated to be a new virus of the coronavirus family, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Multiple studies have already reported that risk factors for severe disease include older ag...

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... Stay-at-home mandates' impact on mortality is subject to debate, for while some studies report its epidemiological impact [3], many others suggest an absence of COVID-19 mortality reduction due to the lockdown [4,5]. Moreover, the comparison of pre-and post-lockdown observations reveals a counter-intuitive slowdown in the decay of the epidemic after lockdown [6,7]. In a nutshell, many studies now suggest lockdown inefficacy for COVID-19 mortality, and even sometimes SARS-CoV-2 mere transmission [8,9]. ...