In three days, the United States would have vaccinated as much as France in three months

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22:17 04.04.2021(updated 22:39 04.04.2021) Short url

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The vaccination campaign against Covid-19, on which Joe Biden relies at the start of his mandate, is accelerating across the Atlantic. Without wishing to compare what is not comparable, we see that France in three months vaccinated as much as the Americans in three days, reports the newspaper Huffington Post.

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During the first three days of April, the United States administered 11.4 million doses as part of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which corresponds to the results of the vaccination campaign in France during its three first few months, the Huffington Post newspaper reports.

Cyrus Shahpar, COVID-19 data manager for the White House, posted on Twitter on April 3 a record 4.08 million injections per day.

More than 20 million vaccines were given to the American population during the previous week, recalls Huffington Post.

As of the evening of April 3, 31.4% of Americans had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 18% of the adult population of the United States had been properly vaccinated, according to the data of the American site Covid Data Tracker. However, in France, the rate of people vaccinated stood at 13.7% on April 3, which results from figures made public by Public Health France.

Vaccine production in France

France, like the whole of the EU, is facing a shortage of anti-Covid vaccines in the middle of the third epidemic wave. The mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard recently sounded the alarm in his department, denouncing on BFM TV a “formidable failure” of the government in the distribution of doses.

According to the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), the French group Delpharm will launch the production of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines on April 7 on French soil, in Eure-et-Loir. Moreover, it is not a question of production itself since the liquid itself will arrive from sites of Pfizer in Belgium and BioNTech in Germany, notes Challenges.

The Swedish group Recipharm will also process the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Indre-et-Loire in April and the Fareva group will package the CureVac vaccine, awaiting validation by the health authorities, at its sites in Normandy and in the Pyrenees. Atlantic from June.

The French Sanofi will make its Marcy-l’Étoile site in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes available to package the Johnson & Johnson vaccine by July.

Biden’s Hundred Days of Anti-Covid War

During the vaccination campaign, on which the 46th President of the United States of America is betting at the start of his mandate, Joe Biden continues to pick up the bet. On December 8, he promised to vaccinate 100 million Americans against the coronavirus during the first 100 days of his presidency. To revise, on March 25, its promise upwards and announce a new investment of $ 10 billion for this purpose.

The new presidential goal of 200 million injections to be administered in 100 days should be achieved, given the current rate of vaccination and the vaccination strategy in the United States.

The fact that the White House is placing high hopes on vaccination in this national anti-Covid battle was confirmed to CNN on Saturday by Dr Anthony Fauci, Biden’s senior medical adviser and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Disease infectious.

“Hold on a little longer and the vaccine will allow us to overcome the resurgence of the virus,” he said, also noting Americans’ weariness with the restrictions. “This is the solution.”

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