While an expansion of priority audiences for vaccination against the coronavirus is planned from Monday, several hospitals, especially in the Paris region, did not wait until the end of the weekend to start administering the vaccine to certain members of their nursing staff.

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Some doctors or nurses over 50 have started to be vaccinated against Covid-19 this weekend, without waiting for the promised acceleration of the vaccination campaign from Monday.

Injections for caregivers have started in particular in Nancy and in the hospitals of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris, in Île-de-France, where Europe 1 went.

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"Today it's a box, tomorrow there will be two, the day after tomorrow even more ..."

About fifty caregivers were vaccinated on Saturday at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris.

About fifty others will be on Sunday, one by one in a small box in the emergency department.

If the machine is just getting started, it is a start that Frédéric Batteux, the medical manager of the Hôtel-Dieu, would like to greet.

"Today is a box, tomorrow there will be two, the day after tomorrow even more. There is a real enthusiasm, a vaccine momentum that should not be broken," he assures us of Europe 1. "We must be able to answer it in an extremely broad way, covering all health professionals over 50 years old."

The APHP is keen to move up a gear, explains Professor Claire Pouillard of the Paris Hospitals management, which explains this advance compared to the national vaccination schedule.

"In 48 hours, it was decided, with the general direction of public assistance, to set up this center to show the example, and so that a certain number of staff members have the possibility of being vaccinated. ", she says.

"It's a real boost. By the end of next week, all public assistance hospitals will have vaccination centers for their nursing staff," she says.

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A good strategy, but a too timid start

"The vaccination strategy that has been defined by the government is the right one. In a first phase we vaccinate fragile patients, we save lives, [...] and in a second phase we carry out mass vaccination. [ ...] Simply, what is annoying now is that in the first phase we surround ourselves with a luxury of precautions which means that we delay everything ", explains at the microphone of Europe 1 Frédéric Adnet, the medical director of the SAMU of Seine-Saint-Denis.

"It is absolutely necessary to speed up the movement, to simplify the procedures", he insists.

Increase tenfold the number of vaccinated

Sunday evening, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, must bring together all the directors of the regional health agencies at 7 p.m. to consider an acceleration of the vaccination.

Starting Monday, injections for caregivers over 50 and those with co-morbidities are expected to be rolled out nationwide.

Enough to increase tenfold the number of vaccinated in France, because for the moment only 0.0006% of French people are vaccinated, a ridiculously low rate compared to most of our European neighbors.