Temps de crise du Covid en tension entre immédiateté, durabilité et incertitudes

The scientific and medical uncertainties that marked the COVID-19 epidemic, and the urgency of responding to it, have generated doubts in France about the correctness of medical and social decisions. An impossible anticipation has added a temporal tension responsible for reversals in the actions concerning the elderly living in EPHAD, in the appreciation of the relationship between authority and knowledge, or in the confidence of the measures of effectiveness at the basis of medical decisions or public health. A more systematic use of the experiential knowledge of the people concerned and the co-construction of decisions could reduce the deleterious effects of these reversals.