This item is taken from the monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir n°953-954, dated July-August 2026.
The organizers had feared this for several days. Their fears were confirmed in the first few minutes of the scientific conference on long Covid, held on April 23 at the Imagine Institute in Paris. "We are dying. We want real care, not meditation." “,” exclaimed patients and activists from various associations. Even before the presentations began, several of them interrupted the discussions, denouncing research they accused of “ to psychologize their illness. The tension rose even further when the speakers' microphones were deliberately muted, preventing those connected remotely from following part of the debates.
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