Reorganizing the health and dependency system

It is too early to take stock of the way in which French society and the public authorities have reacted to Covid19 , but some elements already seem to emerge. While the healthcare system has been able to take care of all the patients, thanks to the tremendous commitment of the care workers and centralised management (transfer of patients to less tense areas), the same cannot be said of the health system: prevention strategies have suffered from the lack of tests, the lack of masks, confused or even contradictory messages (maintaining elections, uselessness of masks, etc.), and measures applied blindly and uniformly to territories that were nevertheless affected very differently. Even more than curative care, prevention requires strong, reciprocal trust between health authorities and populations. Doesn’t such a development call for responses that are tailored to the local situation, that come from the territories themselves, and that mobilise users as much as health professionals?