French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Coronavirus after showing mild symptoms. Reuters. He and his wife will be self isolating. However, Macron had close contact with all but two of the European Union leaders recently during a summit at Brussels. He also had lunch with European Council President Charles Michel, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and OECD chief Angel Gurria on Monday and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa yesterday. Macron is young and in good health so it is expected that he will recover fully. It is unclear how Macron contracted the disease.
My Comment:
Looks like another world leader has contracted the Coronavirus, right before the vaccine became available too. Macron joines Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro as world leaders who have caught the virus. It just goes to show that anyone can catch the disease, even the most powerful men in the world.
I have no doubt that Macron is going to be fine. Macron is ridiculously young at 42 and has no health worries to speak of. It would be incredibly shocking for someone in his health and age to die from the disease and even an extended illness is unlikely. His wife is more at risk as she is 67 but it's not clear if she was exposed, let alone infected.
And I do have to point out Macron is going to get the best care in the world. Nobody wants to be the doctor or nurse then let a world leader die and only the most competent people will care for him. This is why both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump survived, with both of them being dramatically older and less healthy than Macron. If they can pull through it would be totally shocking if Macron did not.
More concerning is who Macron might have passed the disease on to. I am not too worried about the people in Brussels as Coronavirus does not spread the early. But for the Spanish and Portuguese Prime Ministers? They had lunch with him without masks and there was a window there where Macron could have infected them. Neither man is in a high risk category with Pedro Sanchez being 48 and Antonio Costa being 59 (and at slightly higher risk), but it is concerning that they could have been infected. The various aides and other people that interacted with Macron might be at a much higher risk
One does wonder how exactly Macron got infected. It's little wonder that world leaders are getting it as they can't isolate from the world entirely but it seemed like Macron was taking precautions and got it regardless. I guess it only takes one person being sick around him though to infect him.
Still, I kinda feel that the Coronavirus is on the way out. Though cases are still sky high the death rate is not that bad. And new therapeutics and vaccines are coming out daily. It will take time for the virus to burn out completely but we get closer to herd immunity everyday. And once that happens we will have finally beaten this virus.
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