Strongly criticized since the start of the vaccination campaign, the government has chosen to show that it wants to speed up the process.

But according to representatives of Ehpad joined by Europe 1, it would have been difficult anyway to go faster during the holiday period.

Under fire from critics because of a very slow start to the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, the government on Monday promised a rapid rise, with injections for all caregivers at risk and no longer only in retirement homes.

But for the representatives of the nursing homes, it would have been complicated to do it faster than at present anyway.

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"We couldn't go any faster" during the holidays

Difficult indeed to put pressure on families to obtain consent, explained the representatives of retirement homes at the end of December.

In the initial schedule, the massive destocking of vaccine doses was not to be done before January 10 anyway.

And given the logistics, it would have been complicated to accelerate the vaccination rate during the holiday season, according to Pascal Champvert, president of the association of directors in the service of the elderly.

"We could not go faster! We are coming out of a fortnight's vacation where professionals from establishments such as those at home needed to recover from this particularly exhausting year. The liberal doctors themselves were also a lot to be on vacation, rightly so, and therefore the necessary collection of consent from the elderly was hardly possible until this week. "

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Vaccinate at home?

For him, it is therefore urgent to start in parallel the vaccination of the elderly at home.

A vaccination that could be done by general practitioners or in hospitals.

Monday Olivier Véran announced that a hundred hospitals would be operational, before the weekend to vaccinate caregivers.

There should be 600 by early February.

They could take over to ensure, with town doctors, the vaccination of over 75s.