While Inserm launched the Covireivac platform on October 1 to recruit 25,000 volunteers ready to test anti-Covid vaccines, some have already volunteered.
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Alexander Demianchuk / TASS / Sipa U / SIPA
On October 1, Inserm put the Covireivac platform online to recruit 25,000 volunteers, in order to test the anti-Covid vaccines under development.
And many candidates, including readers of
20 Minutes
, have already registered.
Everyone has their own reasons, ranging from wanting to no longer have to wear a mask, to be able to hug those close to them, or to accomplish a civic act to advance research.
They will help science, and potentially all of us.
They are women and men, young and old, in perfect health or with chronic diseases: all of them have in common that they are readers of
20 Minutes
and have volunteered to test anti-Covid vaccines.
They are responding to Inserm's call, which is looking for 25,000 volunteers for large-scale clinical trials and has thus just launched the Covireivac platform, on which any adult can obtain information and register.
Why are they doing it?
Between the desire to find the life before and that of helping science find an effective vaccine to defeat the coronavirus and protect people at risk, they tell their motivations to
20 Minutes
.
"I want to get out of this psychosis", "no longer have to wear a mask"
Without a vaccine or treatment, we have to learn to live with the virus.
But Ivan, 24, has "no desire to live indefinitely with a mask, so we might as well get things done to get rid of it as soon as possible."
Same pragmatic vision for Sylvie, who decided to register “to help research, but also to no longer have to wear masks, nor respect social distances.
I want to return to our life without social barriers, indicates the forty-something.
I dream that we can meet each other without psychosis or stress, relive evenings of concerts, without risk.
The more numerous we will be to volunteer to advance research, the faster we will regain our freedom, without constraints or obsessions ”.
“I want to be able to go out to see my friends without constraint, have lunch with the family, and once again take my loved ones in my arms, abounds Marta, 31 years old.
I want to test this vaccine as soon as possible so that this pandemic stops ”.
"I signed while thinking of my parents, whom I haven't kissed since February"
"This vaccine is above all a prevention tool for the elderly or those in fragile health," said Muriel, 27, who has people at risk in her entourage.
I am young and in good health, so I can and I want to help to prevent them from this disease ”.
A way to protect those close to them, while waiting to be able to hug them again.
"I signed with my parents in mind, whom I haven't kissed since February and whom I so want to protect," says Alexandra, 40, already registered on the Covireivac platform.
If this vaccine works, it is thanks to us, the volunteers, that we will know.
I was fortunate not to lose a loved one to this disease and to keep my job.
This luck makes me feel indebted ”.
This "chance", Pierre did not have it.
“My grandfather died of the coronavirus, blows the young man of 20 years.
So I want to do my best to prevent people from losing their loved ones ”.
"It's a civic act", "To feel useful"
Like Pierre, Thiebaud, 32, thinks that “health must be a collective concern.
We benefit from the French health system, care and donations of blood, organs or gametes when we need it.
In return, you have to know how to donate what you can offer to others ”.
At 62, one of our readers regrets not being able to donate blood.
“For 34 years, I felt 'useful' by donating blood several times a year, but health concerns prevent me from continuing.
Volunteering to test these anti-Covid vaccines is a way of feeling useful, despite my age and my health problems ”.
Donate his blood and bone marrow, Yannick has already done so, and feels ready to take part in this clinical trial.
"I answered Inserm's call because it is our duty to participate in the research effort," said the sixty-year-old.
The stakes are high, we have to find a vaccine ”.
And he's not the only one to see it that way.
“I am neither a doctor nor a researcher, plant Patrick, 46 years old.
The only way I can help my neighbors, and especially my children, is to participate in this type of test ”.
At 40, Guillaume wants to give back a little of what he has received: “For me it was a duty, a civic act: a way of helping the population to fight this terrible epidemic.
I already needed heavy hospital care a few years ago.
If I am alive today, it is thanks to volunteers, researchers, who worked to find safe treatments.
So, since this episode, I feel the need to help, at my level, by donating my blood as often as possible, my bone marrow too, and today by volunteering.
I have been helped to stay alive, so I help others to stay alive.
I trust the doctors ”.
"You have to test the vaccine on people my age"
This civic approach, some therefore undertake it at an advanced age, like Michelle.
“I am 68 years old and have diabetes, I am part of the public at risk, on which it is also necessary to test the vaccine.
These clinical trials are essential for the lives of millions of people ”.
Laurianne is also in her sixties and has diabetes: “In the same way that a single individual can spread an epidemic to many people, thus weakening hospitals, this same vaccinated individual can break the chain of contamination, protect loved ones and strangers, and spare the health system ”.
For her, no fear to participate in these tests.
"Mistrust vis-à-vis vaccines is getting worse, but science must prevail: it is a collective effort and a risk to be taken, a risk for the common good."
This is why, at 81 years old and blessed with iron health, Claude signed up for this test, "because it is normal for the elderly to participate".
An opinion shared by Amar, a 78-year-old doctor, who considers that "participating in this study is a duty, especially since my age, I have a profile that is sought after by Inserm".
The research institute has in fact stressed the importance of testing anti-Covid vaccines on the elderly, who are among the most at risk of developing serious forms of the coronavirus.
"I took care of Covid patients"
Like Amar, other white coats are ready to roll up their sleeves to test vaccine candidates.
“Participating in research is part of my commitment,” sums up Florence, a 58-year-old doctor.
I have confidence in research, and we have to find a vaccine quickly, which in the future will also allow us to be ready if we have to face another viral pandemic ”.
During the first wave, François, a general practitioner who retired this summer after blowing out his 70th birthday, understood the danger of the coronavirus.
"I want to participate in the study because I had to take care of several patients who had severe forms of Covid-19".
Odessa, she “rubs shoulders with the Covid every day, carrying out emergency screenings for the most affected patients,” explains the 26-year-old young woman.
I would like a reliable vaccine to finally be available.
Volunteering, I do it for myself, but above all for others, those who are most at risk ”.
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