The vaccine AstraZeneca arrives in France. At the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon (Rhône), Solène Poutrel, a 40-year-old doctor is vaccinated, Saturday February 6. She is one of the very first caregivers to receive the vaccine. “I think it’s a chance“, she confided to journalists from France Televisions. As of today, 273,600 doses are distributed throughout France between 117 health establishments.
At the Foch hospital in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), the doses arrived in the morning. They are kept in refrigerators before being distributed throughout the department. “This vaccine has an advantage over the previous ones, is that in fact we are just in a cold room, and not in freezers like the previous one.“, explains Dr. Brigitte Bonan, chief pharmacist of the hospital. The AstraZeneca vaccine can in fact be stored between 2 and 8 degrees. It is administered in two doses, spaced nine to twelve weeks apart. It makes vaccination easier. , which relieves hospitals in high tension.
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