Brigitte Autran, member of the scientific committee on Covid-19 vaccines and professor emeritus of immunology at the Sorbonne University, answered questions from Julian Bugier on vaccines against the coronavirus.

According to her, we have enough perspective on their side effects to be confident.

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Will coronavirus vaccines cause significant side effects?

As explained by Brigitte Autran, professor emeritus of immunology at the Sorbonne University, this is not what the clinical trials carried out by the laboratories seem to indicate.

According to her, "we have short-term visibility, from 3 to 6 months of decline".

This is probably sufficient time to realize the potential side effects of the vaccine.

In fact, usually, for other diseases, "most of the side effects occur within 15 days after administration".

The vaccination plan announced by the government therefore seems credible and does not expose the French to risks.

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"We will not be guinea pigs"

The first relief, according to Brigitte Autran, "is that the RNA vaccines have not given rise to serious adverse events or to clinical stops".

These new techniques may have raised concerns about side effects, but these seem to have been lifted and will continue to be.

"For the moment we have six months of follow-up. From the moment or the patients are going to be vaccinated, the clinical trials will continue", specifies the professor of immunology.

And if the vaccine implementation seems very fast, it does not necessarily "take longer than what has been observed here" to identify the side effects of a vaccine.

The epidemic situation simply forced them to act faster.

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Thus, according to Brigitte Autran, vulnerable people, vaccinated first, must not be considered as guinea pigs.

"The guinea pigs are the ones who agreed to participate in clinical trials during the early phases, including phase three, and so we have to say thank you."

She recalls that there are "up to 100,000 people in Western countries who have been vaccinated" and who have provided us "with extremely valuable information on the efficacy and safety of vaccines. So we will not be guinea pigs. ", she concludes.