Since December 22, every 5-11 years are eligible for vaccination. At the center piloted by the Red Cross in a commercial gallery of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, parents and children believe the legitimate approach.
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In the box, isolated by a white plastic partition, we speak of the lion king, of superheroes, we hear “you are very brave”, and it laughs not bad. The vaccination of all children aged 5 to 11 against CIVID-19, which started Wednesday, December 22 at midday, is going pretty well.
Of course, in the midst of holidays, this basement of the Vill’up shopping gallery, at the door of La Villette, a few meters from the City of Science and Industry, in the 19 E Arrondissement of Paris, is not very warm. All the stalls are closed and even the mechanical staircase, which descends at – 1, is stopped. “I would have liked to install toys for children, but it’s not very Covid,” regrets Rubinaz Hakik, the Deputy Director for the Vaccination Center of the French Red Cross.
The result is austere, with fifteen box on two rows, one of which is reserved for children. This center, held by the Red Cross and financed by the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency, with the contribution of health professionals from the public sector as private, opened on December 11 And, since 20, for children. Two days and a half for vulnerable children, with increased risk factors, then without distinction after the announcement made on December 22nd in the morning by Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health and Solidarity, the enlargement of the Vaccine campaign for all children aged 5 to 11. “He spoke at 10 o’clock in the morning and, an hour later, we had fifty children in front of the center,” says Chanez El Sharkawi, a doctor replacing public assistance-hospitals in Paris.
a Average age between 9 and 10 years
Thursday, Gate of the Villette, the flow is incessant, especially as adults are many also to come and get stung. The day before, on the 594 vaccinations of the center, the children were 119, most of the afternoon after the announcement of the minister. Thursday at the end of the day, the center accounted for 503 vaccinated, including 156 children. And in the 5-11 year old, it is rather older who make the trip, the average age of 9 and 10 years.
The hatched cap to the eyes, the young Rachel Allizon is relieved. The vaccine is done. “I wanted and not want at the same time. Envy not to be sick, and not want because of the sting”, tells the girl of “8 years in four days”. For his father, epidemiologist who works at the CNRS, it was obvious. It was still necessary that his daughter agreed, because, in this case as for all the families encountered, there was no question of forcing it.
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