Jean-Michel Blanquer, 56, will soon be vaccinated. “With AstraZeneca », insists the Minister of National Education. Jean Castex, in the introduction, insisted on the need to use all the available vaccines and on the good performance of the Anglo-Swedish serum in severe cases.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who structured his intervention from “ questions we are asked the most on social networks ” began with this subject that worries the executive: the persistent, even growing, mistrust of a vaccine for the time being essential in the vaccine strategy.
More risk of thrombosis in the plane than with the vaccine
Using a strong image, Olivier Véran ensures that there is fifty times more risk of being a victim of a thrombosis while making a transatlantic trip by plane, than after the vaccination.
He is sorry that the additional precautionary measures taken by France, by reserving the vaccine for over 55s (the serious side effects appearing more in young women), have “Paradoxically could increase distrust. ” Distrust, about which we talk too much, he says, while millions of French people have been vaccinated with this product, including “ 50,000 today ”.
Not a word on the fears of a poorer effectiveness of this vaccine against the South African or Brazilian variants, for the time being very few.
Vaccination of children “not relevant”
Over the « questions », the minister announces that those who live under the same roof as a person immunocompromised (because of an illness or a treatment) will be able to be vaccinated as of Monday. The issue of obese under 50 is not yet settled, but it will be “Probably in mid-May”. By this date, all fifty-year-olds will have good access to vaccination.
On the other hand, the vaccination of children, if it is a real subject, “Is not relevant”. Children will have to be vaccinated over time, say virologists. But the results of clinical trials (Pfizer and Moderna have launched) must fall. And that there are sufficient doses. This won’t be a topic until, at a minimum, the last quarter of 2021.
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