Vaccination began on Sunday December 27 in France.

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"It is no longer time to wait".

The National Academy of Medicine regretted Thursday the "very slow" start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, noting a "gradual" implementation which began on Sunday in nursing homes, due to the process of collecting consent , looking for possible contraindications in a fragile population and keeping the patient under observation 15 minutes after injection.

This slow start of the vaccine campaign in France, with less than 200 injections since Sunday against thousands in Germany or Italy, arouses criticism and incomprehension in the political class and among some doctors, but the government assumes its strategy.

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"These excessive precautions risk causing growing misunderstanding"

“This extreme caution is assumed by the health authorities who rule out the possibility of simplifying these procedures during the preliminary phase.

It is sanctioned by a very slow start of the program, ”she adds in a press release, estimating“ the first assessment (100 people vaccinated in three days) difficult to defend ”in comparison with other European countries.

"Adopted to reassure a public opinion won by hesitation, these excessive precautions risk on the contrary giving rise to a growing incomprehension vis-à-vis a campaign whose kick-off seems to lack determination", insists the Academy.

"Simplify and shorten vaccination procedures in nursing homes"

“France deplores more than 64,000 deaths from Covid-19, including nearly a third in the high-risk population who must be vaccinated over the next eight weeks.

Faced with this observation, the national immunization campaign must be exemplary in a country which has contributed so much to the elimination of infectious diseases through vaccination, ”adds the Academy of Medicine.

It therefore recommends “to simplify and shorten as much as possible the vaccination procedures in nursing homes”.

She also pleads for the first phase of vaccination to be deployed "as a priority" in the most affected departments and for the "transparency" of the state of vaccine stocks so that "the implementation of the vaccine strategy does not appear. not dictated by the vagaries of delivery ”.

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