In a report released Thursday, the elected officials criticize this tool put in place only one month ago and which only partially reached its main incentive for vaccination.
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End of part for the vaccinal pass? While the fifth wave regresses and the Government pursues its restrictions clearance schedule, the Senate Committee on Social Affairs recommends, in a report released on Thursday, February 24, “to engage in a rapid lifting of the vaccinal pass and calls to Strengthen transparency in the management of the epidemic “. Senators are not tender with this tool supposed to “reduce tensions on the hospital system” and “limit the risk of non-vaccinated contamination”. “It’s more evolving the virus, with the prospect of entering an endemic phase, more than the vaccinal pass, which will have changed the face of the crisis in our country,” said Michelle Meunier, senator (socialist party ) of Loire-Atlantic, one of the rapporteurs of the commission of inquiry.
Since they had anticipated, senators have moved forward very quickly since January 20 to make their conclusions. Despite this “restricted calendar” wanted by the President of the Social Affairs Committee, Catherine deroche (Republicans, Maine-et-Loire), and who has in fact chaired the commission of inquiry, this report seems to be a little late, Almost on the right time, both the government has multiplied in recent weeks the announcements on a possible vaccinal pass at March. A horizon still confirmed before the Commission, Tuesday, by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
Senators also point the speed with which the executive announced as of 20 January the gradual lifting of certain sanitary measures, while the vaccinal pass was only effective in January 24. “The succession of sometimes contradictory announcements, even before some epidemic management tools are applicable, has helped to blur the message addressed to the population”, highlight the authors of the report. A communication that, according to senators, “certainly helped limit the main effect of the vaccinal pass that is to encourage unvaccinated persons to enter vaccination”.
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Indeed, unlike the sanitary pass this summer, the vaccinal pass was presented without ambiguity as early as December 2021 as an incentive tool for vaccination. A rebound in primo-vaccination could be observed following the Conference of Prime Minister Jean Castex, in mid-December, announcing the next implementation of the vaccinal pass. Result: 800,000 people received a first dose of vaccine between December 20th and January 23rd. A progression that seems insufficient in the face of 5 million people still not vaccinated at the time. “But the immunization coverage of the population is not even part of the criteria considered to consider the lifting of the pass”, highlight senators, very critical on “quantitative and qualitative monitoring of the effects of the vaccinal pass”, judged “largely insufficient”. Olivier Véran recognized Tuesday that “the recoil still lacks a complete and rigorous evaluation” after only one month of application.
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