A vaccination center in Paris -

Lionel Urman / Sipa USA / SIPA

  • All over France, vaccination centers do not have enough doses of the anti-Covid vaccine to meet demand.

  • As a result, many people over the age of 75 cannot find a date.

  • The Association of Mayors of France asked the State for "real-time information".

Testimonies from all over France, and each time the same story: impossible to get an appointment.

If the vaccination against Covid-19 has been available since Friday to all people over 75 years old, reserving a slot in a vaccination center can be an obstacle course.

“My husband and I are both 81 years old.

I've been trying by phone and the Internet for a week, but everything is saturated, ”laments Dany, resident of Gironde.

Jean-Marie, he assures to have called "120 times the call center of sante.fr of Marseille".

Online or by phone, same fight.

In the Alpes-Maritimes, Gérard first tried health.fr and Doctolib, before turning to the national number set up to make appointments.

“At this number, when you're lucky enough to have an operator online, you start by asking if you've tried to make an appointment online.

Then the operator uses the same sites to try to get you a slot and tells you that no appointment is available.

However, a multitude of dates are possible for the second injection.

Couldn't we start with that one?

"

"My appointment was canceled, without the possibility of a waiting list"

And then there are those whose appointment is canceled for lack of vaccine doses available.

This is the mishap that happened to Elisabeth at the vaccination center in Garces (Hauts-de-Seine), and who has since been desperately looking for a niche for her 87-year-old mother.

“I had obtained an appointment for January 23, but it was canceled two days later, with no possibility of a waiting list.

My mother, confined since March, is at her wit's end.

I connect several times a day on the platforms.

I tried in all Hauts-de-Seine, Yvelines and Paris, but it's full everywhere.

"

Alain was lucky.

Living in the Var, he ended up finding an appointment, "after half a day of research on the Internet and on the phone".

But he will have to move to the neighboring department, 70 km from his home.

Shortage ?

If some Internet users go so far as to denounce "lies" about vaccines, some elected officials evoke the term "shortage".

The association of mayors of France on Tuesday asked the state for "real-time information" on vaccine stocks and the supply schedule.

The mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, on Monday called on the government to "tell the truth!"

Do not start over the same story as with the masks or the tests ”.

To answer it, Olivier Véran promised, at the request of Emmanuel Macron, "to publish in full transparency the precise number of doses which each vaccination center has".

Objective, to show the population "that there are no hidden stocks", insisted the Minister of Health.

While Pfizer announced production delays, Prime Minister Jean Castex acknowledged that France would receive this week "only 320,000 doses" instead of the 520,000 initially planned, out of a total of 1.6 million doses.

"But it will be caught up", he assured, promising that "at the end of January, more than a million of our fellow citizens will be vaccinated".

See you in early February to do the accounts.

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