Paris (CNN) A new report from the French Senate alleges that the country's health policy authority failed to heed expert warnings about its stockpile of personal protective equipment, leaving it under-equipped for this year's outbreak of Covid-19. Salomon leads the country's General Directorate for Health, which forms and executes health policy. The report included emails supplied by Salomon, which it claims show that he "intervened directly" in an attempt to push the committee to modify its mask stockpile recommendations memo. It also alleged that the publicly available version of those recommendations was modified from the initial version. JUST WATCHED European countries announce sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH European countries announce sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions 02:01Read More

Source: CNN December 10, 2020 23:14 UTC