Government wants to raise medical secret in schools so that vaccinal status

This amendment, which would concern 12-year-old students been approved by the members. At this stage of the epidemic, this measure does not consensus within the educational community.

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The National Assembly adopted, in the night of Wednesday, 20 October 21, a government amendment to the bill “health vigilance” concerning the knowledge of the student vaccination status by the principals and the chiefs secondary school. A change that, at this stage of the epidemic, does not consensus within the educational community.

If this point is confirmed when the law will arrive in the Senate, as of October 28, school directors, principal and principal will be able to “have access to information about the virological status of students, the existence of contacts With contaminated persons as well as their vaccinal status “- this last point only regarding young people aged 12 and over to whom vaccination has been open since mid-June – mentions the additional item adopted by hands. / p>

Avoid class closures

For the government, the measure aims to “facilitate the organization of screening and vaccination campaigns, and to organize teaching conditions to prevent the risk of propagation of the virus” while, can we read in The summary presentation of the amendment, the “implementation of the Protocol is excessively difficult in the absence of the right to know the virological and vaccinal status of students”. The objective pursued is to avoid class closures in the primary (they were 1 180 in this case, on October 15, at the last census, or 0.22% of the total), and to facilitate in colleges and High Schools The “Differentiated Management” Student (especially for the organization of the courses and the follow-up of contacts), depending on whether they are vaccinated or not. An evolution put in place while the campaigns of vaccination and screening in schools seem to mark the step.

Is it the end of medical secret in school? His preservation was already debated before the summer. The government had attempted to introduce a change in this direction, but the government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on September 2nd day of the school year that the vaccine status of students would remain protected. “It’s the health insurance that will do the control,” he said, on FranceInfo.

While the sanitary pressure relaxes a little for schoolchildren, who can lower the mask in all departments where the incidence rate is less than 50 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, the defended evolution divides the actors of the ‘school. It arrives in the debate while 75% of the 12-17 years old received a first dose of vaccine, and that 71% have a complete vaccination scheme, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The fracture line is clear between the primary and secondary: if, in the ranks of the SNUIPP-FSU, the majority union among school teachers, it is favorable to the initiative, hoping it to “avoid” avoiding A return of children in class when they have a member of their family tested or they are themselves “, explains his spokesperson, Guislaine David, the senior officers of colleges and high schools feel him , simply “useless”.

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