The slowness of the French vaccination campaign has been widely criticized.
For the epidemiologist Martin Blachier, this controversy has not been successful and has allowed the government to react.
After Jean Castex's announcements on Thursday, the country is boosting vaccination.
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Vaccination is the key to ending the Covid-19 health crisis, and the announcements by Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday reinforce this feeling.
But the initial slowness of the campaign seems at odds with the urgency of the situation.
After having suffered much criticism for a week, the executive seems determined to speed up the process.
"In a week of controversy, we managed to ensure that the government is put in order", ruled the epidemiologist Martin Blachier, at the microphone of Europe 1 Thursday evening.
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Jean Castex first announced the creation of 600 vaccination centers, at least 6 in each department, by the end of the month.
A strategic turnaround hailed by Martin Blachier: "There was a fundamental strategic error which was to think that we were going to vaccinate in the offices of general practitioners. We did not reflect on the fact that it was impossible in term logistics."
In addition, the government plans to open vaccination to all over 75s, and not only nursing home residents, while simplifying the process of acquiring consent.
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For Doctor Jimmy Mohamed, this caution displayed by the government when administering the first vaccines was in fact a hide-and-seek: "It is an admission of the lack of vaccines" available, he judges.
The head of government wished to reassure, Thursday, on the capacity of the country to secure the precious vaccines.
"The more doses we have, the better", concludes Martin Blachier.