This is a now well-known dynamic. With the epidemic rebound of the ninth wave, calls from health authorities for prevention and vaccination are intensifying. The threat of Covid-19, however, seemed relegated to the background of political priorities since the start of the school year, behind the hospital crisis and the increasingly tense situation in pediatric emergency services.
Thursday 1er December, government spokesman Olivier Véran called on those over 60, “disease carriers” and people “in daily contact with frail or elderly people” to do a new vaccine booster. “It takes you five minutes and it will protect you. It will limit the risk of complications and hospitalization.recalled the former Minister of Health.
The figures for the fall vaccination campaign are much lower than hoped for by the current minister, François Braun, who sounded the alarm, beginning of November, in an interview at Parisian. As of November 28, 9.4% of those over 80 and 7.2% of those aged 60-79 had received a new injection, i.e. two million doses distributed since October 3. “Insufficient levels of vaccination”reiterated, Tuesday, November 29, the Ministry of Health, which hopes to mobilize all stakeholders – people at risk, those around them, such as health professionals. “It is all the more important that we are one month away from the holidays and given the deterioration of the epidemiological situation for a few days”we insist on the ministry.
With 50,000 cases per day on average as of November 30, the number of contaminations increased by 40% compared to the previous week. This epidemic resumption has already been reflected for two weeks in the number of daily admissions to hospital, up 17% in one week, with nearly 1,000 people registered on average every day. The same is true for critical care admissions, which are approaching the peak of the eighth wave with an average of 90 admissions per day. The number of deaths, on a high plateau since November 18, is around sixty per day.
So, how to explain this weak enthusiasm for the vaccine booster? According the fifth survey resulting from the Slavaco project conducted by Jeremy Ward, a sociologist at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, 72% of respondents were willing to do a booster if it was recommended for them. These responses were collected in the summer. It is clear that this stated desire eroded in the fall.
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