Self-testing for Covid: why is France taking a long time to get started?
RETICENCE - Some of our neighbors have released self-tests allowing citizens to test themselves for Covid-19. Why has France still not approved them? We take stock.
- TF1
It is a method of screening that has already been adopted in many countries. In recent days, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria have adopted self-tests, following in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, where these tests have been accompanying children's returns to school since Monday, or even Germany, where they were put on sale this weekend in supermarkets, the shelves being emptied in 24 hours.
Still, across the Rhine, opinions are divided on these self-tests. "It is useful so that everyone feels safe," said a German interviewed by TF1, while another of her fellow citizens expressed reservations: "I will not buy these tests, do them myself. seems ineffective. You have to do the exam correctly, I will let a professional do it instead. "
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For Xavier Guérin, president of the European branch of Innova Medical Group, this test combines "a high performance test which, in clinical trials shows results greater than 97%, with a speed test since we have a result in twenty. minutes " . To use it, just six drops of a reagent to put in a tube and take a simple sample in the nose by turning the swab in circles about ten times.
To verify that these tests are correctly carried out and to give practical advice to people who test positive, manufacturers are developing an application to download which will also ensure traceability and, why not, a faster return in restaurants, theaters or public places.
A file studied by the Haute Autorité de Santé
If these self-tests are not yet authorized in France, the file is being studied by the Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) and an answer will be given before the end of March. "We will have to answer, on the one hand, questions of performance vis-à-vis these self-tests, and also of modalities of use, in which medical and societal indications we will be able to use these self-tests in a complementary manner to which already exists " , explains Cédric Carbonneil, head of the professional acts evaluation service at HAS.
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On the side of the executive, reservations were expressed concerning the effectiveness of these self-tests, in particular saliva, like the Minister of Health Olivier Véran during an intervention in the Senate on February 10: "The sensitivity of these tests is in the range of 11% to 40% for the best of them, so you have a better chance of knowing the truth if you toss a coin. Research continues in France and elsewhere, as soon as we will have them, we will use them. "
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RETICENCE - Some of our neighbors have released self-tests allowing citizens to test themselves for Covid-19. Why has France still not approved them? We take stock.
- TF1
It is a method of screening that has already been adopted in many countries. In recent days, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria have adopted self-tests, following in the footsteps of the United Kingdom, where these tests have been accompanying children's returns to school since Monday, or even Germany, where they were put on sale this weekend in supermarkets, the shelves being emptied in 24 hours.
Still, across the Rhine, opinions are divided on these self-tests. "It is useful so that everyone feels safe," said a German interviewed by TF1, while another of her fellow citizens expressed reservations: "I will not buy these tests, do them myself. seems ineffective. You have to do the exam correctly, I will let a professional do it instead. "
ALL THE INFO ON
CORONAVIRUS: THE PANDEMIC THAT IS SHAKING THE PLANET
The latest information on the epidemic
At what stage is the epidemic, department by department?
A test that is 97% reliable?
For Xavier Guérin, president of the European branch of Innova Medical Group, this test combines "a high performance test which, in clinical trials shows results greater than 97%, with a speed test since we have a result in twenty. minutes " . To use it, just six drops of a reagent to put in a tube and take a simple sample in the nose by turning the swab in circles about ten times.
To verify that these tests are correctly carried out and to give practical advice to people who test positive, manufacturers are developing an application to download which will also ensure traceability and, why not, a faster return in restaurants, theaters or public places.
A file studied by the Haute Autorité de Santé
If these self-tests are not yet authorized in France, the file is being studied by the Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) and an answer will be given before the end of March. "We will have to answer, on the one hand, questions of performance vis-à-vis these self-tests, and also of modalities of use, in which medical and societal indications we will be able to use these self-tests in a complementary manner to which already exists " , explains Cédric Carbonneil, head of the professional acts evaluation service at HAS.
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On the side of the executive, reservations were expressed concerning the effectiveness of these self-tests, in particular saliva, like the Minister of Health Olivier Véran during an intervention in the Senate on February 10: "The sensitivity of these tests is in the range of 11% to 40% for the best of them, so you have a better chance of knowing the truth if you toss a coin. Research continues in France and elsewhere, as soon as we will have them, we will use them. "
TF1Update : Created:Twitter
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