The doubts of the Government and the scientists reinforce the social inequalities of access to prevention: this is the conclusion of the third component of the great Epicov survey, devoted to vaccination.
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The sociologist Nathalie Bajos is not customary to survive his work. To present The third delivery of the Epicov survey (” Epidemiology and living conditions “), jointly carried out by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the Research Directorate, Studies, evaluation and statistics (DREES), which relates to social disparities in access to VVID-19 vaccination, the Director of Research at the Inserm announces the color: “He is not There is no scoop. Inequalities usually observed in access to prevention, we find them in this particular policy that is vaccination. “
No one will be stunned to read that the least favored social categories, the least graduate, those at the lowest income or non-European immigrants are the least vaccinated. Nor surprising the observation that confidence in the government or vis-à-vis scientists weighs heavily in the vaccine status.
A chart quite graying
But the magnitude of these influences appears, on the other hand, quite amazing, like a whole set of small details that make the survey made public, Thursday, February 24, a chart quite striking.
The first two components of this vast project launched with the pandemic had made it possible to monitor social dynamics, analyze the exposure to risk, contaminations or the impact of the health crisis on the living conditions of the French. One hundred and thirty-five thousand people thus answered a first questionnaire in May 2020, 107,000 of them had continued during the second component in November 2020, with this time a close-up on a possible use of vaccines yet to come.
For this third delivery, 85,000 loyal, over the age of 15, have shared with both their vaccination status but also of what motivated them to accept, or to refuse the two doses of product. Collected in July 2021, for the most part just before the installation of the sanitary pass, this information is simultaneously published in two articles, one edited by the DREES, the other filed on the Medrxiv site.
At the time, 72% of the major people had received at least one dose, 10% intended to do so, the same proportion hesitated while 8% affirmed not to wish to be vaccinated. Today, about 92% of the adult population is vaccinated. It seems that the reflection time and the measures of constraints taken by the government have managed to rock the hesitant to immunization, without much affecting the most refractory fringe.
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