During your next COVID-19 booster dose, you will no longer have to wait 15 minutes before you can leave the premises. As of Wednesday, the monitoring period after the injection of the third dose is removed, announced the Directorate General of Health. “The risk that people who did not have an allergic reaction during their first vaccination do during their booster dose is extremely low”, justifies the DGS. The measurement was taken in order to “streamline the organization of vaccination centers”.
On the other hand, some people will still have to wait a quarter of an hour after the injection: people first vaccinated with a vaccine other than Pfizer or Moderna, those with a known allergic ground, children from 5 to 11 years old or even women. pregnant. The people “exhibiting vaccination anxiety” will also have to wait.
At the beginning of December, neither the High Authority for Health, nor the Council for the Orientation of the Vaccine Strategy (COSV), planned to reverse this rule despite the wish expressed by the Ministry of Health. “The recommendation about the fifteen minute watch period is still valid”, explained to LCI the HAS, whose opinions have been followed by the government since the beginning of the health crisis. “It is valid, including for the booster dose.”
Immunologist Alain Fischer, chairman of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, did not seem to be in favor of modifying the instructions either. “I think it is reasonable to maintain this surveillance time”, he said to LCI.