Why France
is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure
The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma
profit from the Covid-19 pandemic
By Pepe Escobar
March 27,
2020 "Information
Clearing House"
- What’s going on in the fifth
largest economy in the world arguably points to a
major collusion scandal in which the French
government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the
expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are
absolutely furious about it.
My initial
question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source,
jurist Valerie Bugault, was about the liaisons
dangereuses between Macronism and Big Pharma and
especially about the mysterious “disappearance” –
more likely outright theft – of all the stocks of
chloroquine in possession of the French government.
Respected Professor Christian Perronne
talked about the theft live
in one of France’s 24/7 info channels: “The central
pharmacy for the hospitals announced today that they
were facing a total rupture of stocks, that they
were pillaged.”
With input
from another, anonymous source, it’s now possible to
establish a timeline that puts in much-needed
perspective the recent actions of the French
government.
Let’s
start with Yves Levy, who was the head of
INSERM
– the French National Institute of Health and
Medical Research – from 2014 to 2018, when he was
appointed as
extraordinary state councilor
for the Macron administration. Only 12 people in
France have reached this status.
Levy is
married to Agnes Buzy, who until recently was
minister of health under Macron. Buzy was
essentially presented with an “offer you can’t
refuse” by Macron’s party to leave the ministry – in
the middle of the coronavirus crisis – and run for
Mayor of Paris, where she was mercilessly trounced
in the first round on March 16.
Levy
has a vicious
running feud with
Professor Didier Raoult – prolific and often-cited
Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases.
Levy withheld the INSERM label from the
world-renowned IHU (Hospital-University Institute)
research center directed by Raoult.
In
practice, in October 2019, Levy revoked the status
of “foundation” of the different IHUs so he could
take over their research.
Raoult
was part of a
clinical trial that
in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed
90% of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very
early. (Early, massive testing is at the heart of
the successful South Korean strategy.)
Raoult is
opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals
and possible carriers – which he considers
“medieval,” in an anachronistic sense. He’s in favor
of massive testing (which, besides South Korea, was
successful in Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and a
fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine. Only
contaminated individuals should be confined.
Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills. And
there’s the rub: Big Pharma – which, crucially,
finances INSERM, and includes “national champion”
Sanofi – would
rather go for a way more profitable solution. Sanofi
for the moment says it is
“actively preparing”
to produce chloroquine, but that may take “weeks,”
and there’s no mention about pricing.
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