This is an unprecedented photograph of France vaccinated against Covid-19, and of one that is not, or less. At a time when the state is working to tighten the rules of the health pass to encourage as many people as possible to be vaccinated, against the backdrop of an epidemic resumption, several vaccination “fracture” lines are crossing the country.
A territory well vaccinated in the West and the North, lagging behind in the South-East; better in the cities than in the outskirts; more strongly in wealthy municipalities, less among the most disadvantaged … Based on the latest data from the Health Insurance published on July 19, Emmanuel Vigneron, geographer of health, calculated a “Comparative vaccination index”, at the inter-municipal level. And this, by ruling out a major bias that can sometimes constitute ” The tree that hides the forest “ : the effect of age.
In a vaccination campaign where this characteristic, the main risk factor in the face of the disease, has determined access to vaccination over the past few months, the composition of each territory, more or less aged, can in fact mask the reality of the level. vaccination status achieved. “Thanks to this method, we can see the cultural, social and economic phenomena which play a role in the level of vaccination of the population according to the territories, regardless of age”, summarizes Professor Vigneron.
“Refusal of what comes from” Paris “”
The index thus reveals a France divided by a diagonal which starts from the south-west of Occitania to the east of the country around Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), separating a north and a large part of the west of the well vaccinated country, when the South-East, in first place of which the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, and part of the center of the country are lagging far behind. “This is a serious challenge for vaccine policies when we know the current upsurge in the epidemic in the Pyrénées-Orientales, Hérault or on the Côte d’Azur”, points out M. Vigneron.
An east-west opposition that does not especially follow the intensity of the Covid-19 epidemic of the last sixteen months. This hit the South around Nice, the Côte d’Azur, Marseille, during the second and third waves, or even the Haut-Rhin from the first wave, territories that did not rush to the south. vaccine, on the contrary. Conversely, Brittany and New Aquitaine, much less affected, are among the most vaccinated. The tip of Finistère-Nord leads the most advanced inter-municipal authorities in vaccination, when the overseas territories of Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique close the pack.
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