Covid-19. The AstraZeneca vaccine no longer moves crowds. With growing mistrust, a general practitioner from Petit-Quevilly found himself posting an ad on a social network to find a volunteer.
All means are good to have your dose! After the Covidliste platform connecting health professionals who have unused vaccine doses and unvaccinated volunteers, here is an original method: the dose “put into play” on Twitter.
The comical approach comes to us from Christine Argelès, general practitioner at Petit-Quevilly, and former deputy mayor of Rouen under the former mandate, who launched this call on Friday April 9 at 6:45 p.m., on the social network: “I still have a vaccination spot tomorrow afternoon by AstraZeneca so as not to waste a dose … If someone over 55 years old even without a risk factor is interested, Rouen Le Petit-Quevilly sector, contact me. “
“We find ourselves vaccinating only those 55 to 60 years old with comorbidity”
Among the handful of answers, it was finally Mila, a 57-year-old history and geography teacher from the agglomeration of Rouen, who unsheathed the first and obtained the dose of AstraZeneca (see opposite).
“I have been in a hurry, says Christine Argelès. It was Friday at 6 p.m., and there was a dose left for Saturday at 2 p.m. I thought of Twitter », continues the doctor followed by some 500 subscribers on the social network. She has been vaccinating for more than a month – “When we have doses” -, this is the first time that she has found herself with more vaccines than volunteers. The mistrust vis-à-vis AstraZeneca has gone through this. “With the opening of vaccinodromes where only messenger RNA is distributed and the government’s announcement lowering the age of eligible people to over 60 from mid-April, we find ourselves vaccinating with AstraZeneca only people aged 55 to 60 with co-morbidities. Because people are waiting to see if the doses of Pfizer will arrive in number from mid-April, but there will not be for everyone ”, predicts the doctor.
Since cases of thrombosis, the High Authority of Health Indeed, recommends reserving the AstraZeneca only for people over 55 years old. “What is astonishing in the end is that there are plenty who would like to be vaccinated, even with AstraZeneca, but they are not of the required age or no comorbidities. “
Friday evening, with two excess doses, Christine Argelès first contacted one of her patients before posting the second dose on Twitter. But next time, she promised, she will register as a healthcare professional on Covidlist to continue not wasting any dose.
Sites to find your dose
The platforms Quickly my dose! and Covidlist help find a dose quickly. The first tells you where the next available dose is in your department (on condition that you still meet the age criteria). The second brings together people waiting for a dose and staff with excess doses.
“As long as I am vaccinated”
Not suffering from any comorbidity, at 57 years old, MilaSaintAnne (her pseudonym on Twitter) was not yet eligible for AstraZeneca (nor for Pfizer or Moderna vaccines reserved, for the moment, for over 70 years and for people suffering from serious pathologies).
This history and geography teacher in a college in the agglomeration of Rouen could not imagine finding her dose on Twitter! “I signed up on Covidliste, but I regularly scan Twitter and when I saw the message, I said to myself: ‘this is for me!’ I’m a teacher, my partner isn’t necessarily super fit, so yes, I don’t care if it’s AstraZeneca, as long as I’m vaccinated! Personally, concerning thrombosis, I took the pill for years with the risks that we know, and it did not pose a problem for anyone. “
For lack of doses, the vaccination of teachers has just been postponed. “We all want to be vaccinated, it does not help to be serene, in this anxiety-provoking period. I have a lot of colleagues who are not doing well. “
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