Lille, October 11, 2013. Vaccination against seasonal influenza at the Institut Pasteur in Lille with the Vaxigrip vaccine in Sanofi Pasteur MSD laboratories.
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M.Libert / 20 Minutes
The flu kills 8,000 to 14,500 each year in France.
While the flu epidemic usually breaks out around January, the vaccination campaign is launched on Tuesday.
The goal: to encourage the most vulnerable to get vaccinated as much as possible.
Knowing that the vaccine only becomes effective after two weeks.
Who can get vaccinated and how?
This is the launch, this Tuesday, October 13, of the vaccination campaign against seasonal influenza in France.
A campaign that will continue until January 31, 2021. And which takes place in a very specific context due to the second wave of Covid-19.
The calls to be vaccinated against the flu have multiplied since the start of the school year, in particular from the Academy of Medicine, learned pediatric societies or members of the majority ...
Possible to be sick with Covid and flu
Because the two epidemics, coronavirus like influenza, attack the same people.
This is why the Minister of Health insisted: he wants the fragile people, but also the caregivers on the front line, to go to be vaccinated against the flu.
History not to impose on the hospitals already in tension and the caregivers tested by the first wave a double epidemic.
Especially since the Mexican health authorities mentioned last Sunday the unprecedented case of a patient contaminated by both Covid-19 and influenza A (H1N1) ...
To anticipate a possible shortage of influenza vaccines, the state has taken several measures.
In particular the prioritization of vulnerable people for the purchase of the vaccine until November 30.
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