Since the announcements of Jean Castex and the prospect of setting up a vaccination pass in January, appointments and first injections are progressing.
At each speech by the executive, appointments to be vaccinated jump. With the prospect of the implementation of a vaccination pass, which the government hopes will be adopted by the end of January, more refractories have decided to take the plunge. Saturday, December 18, they were 15,330 to reserve a slot on Doctolib for a first injection, that is to say 8,483 more than a week before. Among them, 14,609 agreed to communicate their age to the platform; and those over 60 accounted for only 7.6% of the total. An upward trend which is confirmed at the start of the week: 26,153 appointments made on Doctolib on December 20. And they have progressed in all age groups (8.9% made by those over 60). These statistics are encouraging but should be put into perspective with the more than 350,000 appointments blocked for the booster dose that same day …
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In practice, 35,042 first injections were carried out on December 20, up 42% compared to December 13, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Solidarity.
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There is always a long way to go to convince the recalcitrant. 90.9% of eligible French people (over 12 years old, the Haute Autorité de Santé has just approved vaccination for all 5-11 years old) received at least one dose of serum on December 16. This therefore means that 9.1% of them have no vaccination coverage, a fraction of the population sufficient to saturate hospitals. As of December 20, 3,025 people were in intensive care, a record since May.
“Now only the vaccination will be valid in the past […] We assume to put the strain on the unvaccinated because critical care services are mostly filled with unvaccinated people», Declared Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday evening.