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Mickaël Bosredon / 20 Minutes

  • In Ile-de-France, only 2.1% of the population is vaccinated, which is half as much as in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

  • These figures can be explained above all by the demographics of the region: one of those with the fewest elderly people.

  • Delays in data reporting were also noted at the start of the vaccination campaign.

In Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 4.3% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine against the coronavirus.

In New Aquitaine and Normandy, it is 3.6%.

How can we explain that just over 2.1% of Ile-de-France residents have had access to the precious serum?

Since the start of the vaccination campaign, Ile-de-France has certainly led the regions having practiced the most injections - just over 260,000 - but compared to its population, it ranks good last.

This situation is all the more worrying as the epidemic has been progressing at a more sustained rate than in the rest of the territory for several weeks.

Nearly 65% ​​of resuscitation beds in Ile-de-France are now occupied by patients with Covid 19.

“The doses are distributed over the territory in proportion to the target populations.

So the more elderly people there are, the more vaccines there are, ”explains the Ile-de-France regional agency.

In France, priority has indeed been given to the most vulnerable.

The vaccination campaign thus started in nursing homes to extend a few weeks later to over 75s and now to all nursing staff, firefighters and home helpers.

However, according to INSEE, Ile-de-France is the region with proportionately the fewest elderly people, around 7%.

Seine-Saint-Denis, with less than 6% over 75 years old, is even the youngest department in metropolitan France, closely followed by Val-d'Oise and Seine-et-Marne (6 and 6, 5%).

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These demographic differences explain the local disparities: while in Paris, injections are more or less equivalent to the national average (3.56% of adults received at least one dose compared to 3.54% on average in France), The gaps are widening in Val-d'Oise (2.79%), Seine-et-Marne (2.54%) and especially in Seine-Saint-Denis (2.23% of adults vaccinated).

At first glance, this department is even the last - with the exception of the DOM-TOM - in terms of vaccination.

However, when looking by age group, it is in this department and that of Val-d'Oise that the vaccination of over 75s is progressing most rapidly, with respectively 20% and 21.4% of this age group that received at least one dose.

It is even slightly more than at the national level (18.5%).

"The algorithm allows an equitable distribution according to the target populations but it seemed necessary to us to also take into account social criteria, in particular by allocating additional doses to young departments but having experienced a significant excess mortality during the first wave," especially because they have a high proportion of front-line trades, ”we

told 20 Minutes

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In addition to these structural specificities, there are technical difficulties which could explain the Paris region figures.

At the end of January, Santé Publique France, which collects and publishes data relating to the epidemic, indicated that delays in reporting, especially at the very start of the vaccination campaign had been recorded in the region.

Contacted, the health agency was not able to specify if these had been caught and to specify their order of magnitude.

"Anyway, in this first phase of vaccination, we will always be behind the regions which have many more elderly people", insists one within the ARS.

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