Coronavirus: French people's confidence in the vaccine is "at an extremely low level"

According to a BVA poll, only 44% of French people say they are ready to get vaccinated, against two-thirds of Germans or even 70% of Italians.

For the deputy director general of the polling institute, Edouard Lecerf, the start of the campaign could increase confidence in vaccination. 

The start of the coronavirus vaccination campaign comes at a time when the support of the population is not so obvious.

Indeed, the

Journal du Dimanche

tells us that France is one of the most suspicious countries: only 44% of French people say they are ready to be vaccinated, according to a study carried out by BVA.

As a result, France is 30th out of 32 countries questioned on their confidence in vaccination.

"France has an extremely low level, among these thirty countries," notes Edouard Lecerf, deputy director general of the BVA polling institute, at the microphone of Europe 1, Sunday.

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Thus, France is placed between Lebanon and Croatia and far, very far, other European countries.

In Germany, for example, two-thirds of respondents are ready to be vaccinated.

Same thing in Italy where the membership rate is 70%, according to Edouard Lecerf.

The rate of reluctance brought to drop?

The deputy director general of the polling institute BVA also notes "a variation which is extremely important" according to the categories of population questioned.

"We have categories of the population which are even more reluctant than the average", he estimates.

"For example, we have only 28% of those under 35 who say they are certain or 'probably' ready to go for a vaccination. We are at 67% among those 65 and over." 

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Without the confidence of the population, the hypothesis of a failure of the vaccination campaign becomes more precise.

Nevertheless, Edouard Lecerf affirms that an inflection of this trend could be observed with the inoculation of the first doses.

A phenomenon which is currently observed in the United States according to him: "Since the vaccinations started, the rate of reluctance tends to drop. It is perhaps in France something that we can also observe if everything is going very well. Perhaps populations who are now questioning will switch to those who are ready to go to be vaccinated. "