This new opening of vaccination is aimed at vulnerable people for whom associations demanded this right, in order to be able to return to a more normal life.
It was a demand made since the arrival of the vaccine against the coronavirus by associations of fat people: to be able to access vaccination as a priority. This will be done in mid-May 2021 announced Olivier Véran, Minister of Health. Being obese or overweight is a factor of vulnerability to the risk of developing a severe form of the coronavirus. Currently, figures show that 40% of deaths due to Covid-19 and 47% of patients occupying resuscitation beds are people with obesity, says the National Collective of Obese Associations on France Info. This is because these people more often have co-morbidities such as diabetes or heart problems.
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It is therefore a relief for those concerned. The vaccination should allow them to return to a more normal life. Obese people also find it more difficult to seek treatment in general in France. They tell and denounce the guilty discourse on their weight of many caregivers, regardless of the health problem encountered. This discourse and this guilt did not stop with the health crisis.
Mathilde Wattecamps
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