Jouve

“The will is clearly there and efforts have been made,” said Jean Luc Jouve, head of the Marseille hospital commission.

In its most serious form, covid-19 “has become a social illness, an illness of the poor,” said Jean-Luc Jouve, the head of Marseille’s hospital commission.

Anti-vaccine messaging may have resonated, in part, because the region views itself as a counterweight to Paris and is frequently skeptical about decisions made by the national government, said Jouve, the hospital official.

Jouve said this historic antagonism may have elevated one of his colleagues, Marseille-based microbiologist Didier Raoult, who gained international attention last year for promoting hydroxychloroquine and other dubious covid cures.

As Marseille’s anti-health-pass protesters marched last week, Jean-Luc Jouve was working to mitigate the fallout.