Vaccination against Covid-19: instructions for use

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A nurse prepares to perform a vaccination in an nursing home in Bobigny (Ile de France).

December 30, 2020. REUTERS - CHARLES PLATIAU

By: Caroline Paré Follow

50 min

While the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into a health, economic and social crisis, hope to get out of this situation relies heavily on vaccination.

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Great Britain, France, China… countries are adopting different vaccination strategies while facing the fears of the population.

How are these vaccination campaigns organized?

Do we know the vaccination rate, the coverage that will have to be achieved to get out of the pandemic?

How to win the support of the population?

  • Pr Philippe Sansonetti

    , Doctor, microbiologist.

    Professor emeritus at the

    Institut Pasteur. 

    Professor at the

    Collège de France. 

    Member of the 

    Academy of Sciences.

    Author of several books including

    Vaccins

    published by Odile Jacob and 

    You will love your microbes like yourself

     published by the Collège de France

  • Françoise Salvadori,

    doctor in virology / immunology, lecturer at the University of Burgundy.

    His work focuses on controversies around vaccination.

    Author of the book

    "Antivax vaccine resistance from the 18th century to the present day" published by Vendémiaire

  • Prof. Gilles Pialoux,

    head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department at

    Tenon Hospital

    and Professor at

    Sorbonne Universities

    .

    Author of 

    We Were Not Ready: Logbook in Coronavirus Weather

     Editions Jc Lattès

  • Muriel Delcroix,

    RFI correspondent in London

  • Stéphane Lagarde,

    RFI correspondent in China

  • Report by Sébastien Farcis,

    RFI Correspondent in India

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