Marc van Ranst five years after Corona: “Fighting a pandemic without lockdown? Belgians can’t do that ”

Marc van Ranst (59) is back. It is a sentence that causes blood pressure to rise sensitively with some Flemish people. Since the virologist of KU Leuven took the lead five years ago in the fight against the coronavirus, he has been hailed and reviled. “I still get hate messages every day,” he says in a conversation about his new book. For some, how did Van Ranst become the most hated man in the country? And he dares to admit five years later that he made mistakes in the Corona approach? “Maybe I got too much in the media.”

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