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He tried to restore confidence in the vaccination campaign, but seems to have achieved just the opposite. Entrepreneur Marc Coucke (56) replied Thursday evening to a tweet from virologist Marc Van Ranst, who shared the news that the AstraZeneca vaccine has been found to be safe enough to continue. With his photo and message that he himself received the vaccine earlier in the day, Coucke mainly garnered incomprehension and criticism.
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Coucke wrote with a photo showing that he is being vaccinated: “I myself received the invitation letter to go today. Vaccinated with confidence (AstraZeneca). Hopefully everyone as soon as possible, so that normal life resumes. It’s a race between the virus and the vaccinations, to be quick. ”
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While one person responded that it reassured her that “you too” trust AstraZeneca, the message did not have the hoped-for effect on most others. Many Twitter users wondered why the 56-year-old owner of football club RSC Anderlecht has already been vaccinated, while their elderly parents or patients at risk have not yet been invited. “Such a message from a 56-year-old healthy man, that is peaking”, “You look good for your 85”, “Well-intentioned, but somehow also misplaced tweet” or “Pure shame, while so many elderly and sick are waiting . Life is for the rich – curly toes ”, it said.
According to Coucke, he was simply called up “because the computer now invites pharmacists”, and he would have “happily passed on his injection to a risk patient, but this is not possible in our system. I just want to motivate everyone to go asap after invitation. ”
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After graduating in pharmacy, Coucke worked for decades as an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical sector with his company OmegaPharma, but not everyone was satisfied with his explanation. “You are no longer a practicing pharmacist”, or “In what year did you sell your last pill as a ‘pharmacist’ to a patient?” Were some of the responses. Someone wrote: “Don’t come off that you would have liked to have passed your injection to someone else … You could have refused so that someone on the reserve list could get your injection.”
Many saw a particular problem in the approach to the vaccination strategy. “My mother is 84 years old and she is under stress because she does not receive an invitation. How can this be explained? Not a bit of confidence in the government. ” Coucke himself responded to several answers, hoping that others would also receive their invitation soon.
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