VACCINATION SCHEDULE. Emmanuel Macron announced the opening of the vaccination campaign for all people over 70 years old, a telephone number has also been set up. How and where to get vaccinated? All the info.
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- The campaign of vaccination is a “national priority”, declared Emmanuel Macron on March 23, 2021. “There are no Sundays and public holidays for the vaccination”, he added, assuring that the campaign would “change dimension in April “, with the receipt of new stocks. Odile Launay, member of the Covid-19 vaccine committee welcomed this request by indicating that vaccinating “morning, noon and evening” is a “desirable” solution. “We will have more vaccines in the coming weeks and therefore the urgent need is to vaccinate with all the doses that we receive as and as many people as possible.”
- Emmanuel Macron announced that from this Saturday March 27, 2021, the vaccination will be open to all people aged 70 or over.
- A “skip-the-line” telephone number will soon be set up. All people eligible for vaccination who do not manage to get an appointment will be able to call and get an appointment, on a priority basis.
- After a suspension of a few days, France reuses the AstraZeneca vaccine, considered by EMA as “safe and effective”, the High Authority for Health (HAS) considers that it should be reserved for people over 55 years in his last opinion. Vaccination with AstraZeneca has been open in pharmacies since March 15.
The Ministry of Health has deployed an online service on the Sante.fr site, allowing a vaccination center to be identified very quickly around one’s home (to find on this link).
Regarding the implementation of the device, the vaccination in pharmacies is free but can only be done by appointment, the pharmacies are free to organize themselves as they wish: reservation by phone, on site or by the intermediary of the Covid-Pharma platform. All you have to do is present your identity card, vital card and answer an administrative questionnaire as well as a health questionnaire before vaccination. The injection then takes place in a dedicated room. The patient should wait 15 minutes after vaccination. In principle, all pharmacies that practice influenza vaccination can also inject the anti-Covid vaccine.
Registrations for people wishing to be vaccinated, subject to being eligible for vaccination, are open. From March 27, all people over 70 (nursing homes and outside nursing homes) and caregivers can use it. It is possible to make an appointment on one of the three platforms chosen by the government, centralized on the sante.fr site (Doctolib, Maiia and Keldoc). It is also possible to make an appointment by telephone, by dialing 0 800 009 110. People wishing to be vaccinated and who are not residents of nursing home – those who are can benefit from an in situ vaccination – must go to centers, open on a departmental scale.
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As soon as the appointment is made, a form is submitted to the patient in order to obtain checks on the patient’s profile and thus check whether the vaccination against Covid-19 is not incompatible. Allergies, medical treatment … This is the kind of information that is checked. It is then necessary to wait between three and six weeks before going again to a center in order to carry out the second injection inherent in the anti-Covid vaccines.
Vaccination in France is ongoing, but for many people, the wait is still required before the injection. To have visibility on your vaccine eligibility, the site Omnicalculator has set up a simulation allowing to obtain a more or less precise date, according to your age and your profile, all this according to the calendar set up by the government.
Vaccination began on December 27 in France, it only concerns adults for the time being. France has a potential of 200 million doses, which can vaccinate 100 million people knowing that the vaccine requires two doses a few weeks apart. France will spend 1.5 billion euros for these vaccines, allocated to the social security budget. As a reminder, 70% of the population should be vaccinated, according to the scientific journal Nature, to achieve collective immunity.
| Phase | concerned public | Vaccine used |
| Phase 1, until February 1 | At least 1 million people are concerned: – elderly people residing in a retirement home or in care units – healthcare professionals over the age of 50 or with chronic diseases – firefighters and home helpers over 50 years old – people over 75 years old – people at risk suffering from serious pathologies |
Pfizer-BioNTech |
| Phase 2, February and March | Are concerned 14 million people: – first of all people over 75 years old – over 70s from March 27 – then people over 65 – nursing staff over the age of 40 |
Pfizer-BioNTech Modern AstraZeneca |
| Phase 3, from April | Are concerned: – first people aged 50 to 64 – National Education staff – vulnerable and precarious people – security personnel – then the entire adult population |
Pfizer-BioNTech Modern AstraZeneca |
Update on priority audiences
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Update on the vaccination of health professionals
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The answer is no. Emmanuel Macron, during his speech on November 24, made a commitment to the French. The government’s strategy, which must in spite of everything convince the greatest number to be vaccinated, rather aims to establish a relationship of confidence in this vaccine file, in the face of a population that is particularly reluctant to be vaccinated. The executive thus wishes to establish total transparency on the subject, which will have to participate “in the relationship of trust that the government wishes to establish with the citizens concerning the apprehension in the face of this vaccine”, as slipped a relative of the chief from the State to the Sunday Journal.
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