All French people over the age of 18 will have access to a recall dose, which will be integrated into the sanitary pass. A measure that the government justifies through the acceleration of the epidemic, and which arouses divergent analyzes among the experts.
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The Executive puts the throttle on the VVID-19 vaccinal reminder campaign. Olivier Véran announced, Thursday, November 25, a broadening of the booster dose to the whole of the major population. As of January 15, all persons over the age of 18 will have to justify on their safety pass that have received a recall dose for a maximum of seven months after the previous one. In addition, the delay between the second and the third dose is reduced to five months, while it was up to six months.
To further push recalcitrants to be vaccinated, the validity period of PCR and antigenic tests is reduced to 24 hours for the sanitary pass. The port of the mask is made mandatory “everywhere in interior” in the places receiving the public, including the places where the pass is claimed. “The prefects will also be able to make the mask for outdoor events mandatory, such as for example the Christmas markets”, which will be submitted to the pass, “said Mr. Véran.
- Why such an acceleration?
So far, only over 65 years of age could benefit from a dose of additional vaccine, as well as vulnerable people with comorbidities, caregivers and immunocompromised persons. Eligibility reminder starting six months after the last injection, the target population increased gently from September and swelling from day to day. But on November 21, only half of this eligible population had taken the plunge. An insufficient pace for the government, which fears the impact that the fifth wave of the epidemic on the hospital system could have. According to The latest projections of the Institut Pasteur , the daily number of admissions at the hospital could reach 750 from 1 er December, with a peak ranging up “up to 1000 or 1,500”, according to the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfféy. Primo-vaccination stagnant in the same level In recent months, it is on the recall campaign that the throttle is put in order to stop viral traffic.
“Without an epidemic recovery, many countries would be much more caught on this extension of the third dose,” says Jean-Daniel Lelièvre, Chief of the Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Henri-Mondor Hospital of Créteil. In the United States, the US medicine agency has given Friday its green light to an additional dose for all adults. In Europe, many countries, such as Germany, Greece or Italy, have also crossed the step.
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