The increase in demands generated by the new health protocol at school disorganized the system at the beginning of the week.
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To the question of whether pharmacies had enough self-inference to address the return, the President of the National Order of Pharmacists, Carine Wolf-Thal, had answered bluntly , Monday, January 3: “It’s going to be very complicated.” And it was. The implementation of the new contact case tracking protocol at the school has put pressure pharmacies all week, and the families on.
Since Monday, as soon as a primary student contracts COVID-19, all his classmates must be tested three times in five days, including twice with self-insured self-insurance and distributed in pharmacy. The same rule applies to contact cases of more than 12 years if they are vaccinated. With the running of the number of contaminations in France, this test protocol, which also applies to vaccinated adults, “exploded the application”, notes Pierre-Olivier Variot, President of the Union of Pharmacist Unions. Officine (USPO). For children’s screening, it describes an “infernal” pace since the beginning of January.
According to Philippe Besset, President of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Trade Unions of France (FSPF), the professionals were taken short by the announcement, the day before the recovery of the courses, the school protocol. The instructions for testing an entire class to each positive case had not been anticipated, nor the massive distribution of self-qualified autototes.
Tensions on stocks
For families, obtain the two free autototes, a real pivot of the device, has often been a patience game. “The situation is not the same in all territories, some have not had a problem, but many others have shot the tests all week, especially in urban areas,” says Laurent Zameczkowski, Administrator of the Federation of Parep Parents.
Tensions on stocks have been felt. In addition to the record demand and replenishment times, Pierre-Olivier Variot, from the USPO, points to “stock of stocks” by large distribution, exceptionally allowed to sell autototes since December 28th.
According to the ESPF estimates, the French offlicines, however, had 3 million autotot on Monday, and 6 million Friday, January 7th. “Sufficient to meet the needs”, according to Philippe Besset, but unevenly distributed. About 40% of pharmacies were out of stock at the beginning of the week, and as much Friday.
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