In the spotlight: the vaccination accelerator

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A vaccine against Covid-19 (Photo illustration).

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate,

" exclaims

Le Parisien

: "

This is the government mantra, tweeted by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on March 31.

With a syringe, it is about winning a race against time against Covid-19 and its British variant, which has restarted the epidemic.

The rate of injections depends on the reopening of the country

, points out the newspaper,

hoped for in May.

Since the start of the vaccination campaign in France, 10,809,209 people have received at least one injection

(ie 16.1% of the population)

and 3,721,019 people have received two injections

(5.6%).

Among the levers announced yesterday Sunday to accelerate, the spacing of the two doses of messenger RNA vaccine

(Pfizer and Moderna)

at 42 days instead of 28, from Wednesday.

 "

Something to look forward to ...

“ 

Finally!

 ", Sighs

The Latest News from Alsace

.

“ 

After painful, bumpy months and a series of regrettable jolts, the Covid vaccination campaign seems to be accelerating this time.

It is not too late, but it was high time.

(…)

Between the imminent arrival of the vaccine from Johnson and Johnson, the opening of the campaign to over 55s and the extension of the administration time between the two doses, there is hope.

On the condition of course that the stewardship follows, in other words that the products ordered from the laboratories are actually delivered on time. 

"

The fact remains that " 

the government is still faced with the same challenge

,"

Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace still points out

: to

convince the public that the benefits of vaccination are infinitely greater than the risks incurred.

Including with the AstraZeneca, without which it is today totally illusory to imagine quickly guaranteeing collective immunity.

Because the effectiveness of a vaccine is also measured by the confidence it inspires and the support of the population.

And that each additional degree of mistrust is paid for in lost lives.

 "

Biden better than Roosevelt?

Liberation

raised to the skies this morning a certain Joe Biden ...

Joe Biden, a new Roosevelt for America,

 " launches

Liberation,

which seems to adulate the new American president as much as he hated the old one.

"

 With his stimulus plans of astronomical amounts, Joe Biden takes up the torch

of Roosevelt's

" New Deal "

and turns his back on decades of reduction of the welfare state,

notes

Liberation.

Choices guided by the memory of the 2008 crisis and the fear of not doing enough.

 "

In total, nearly 5,000 billion dollars will be mobilized ... " 

The United States could, in a few months, deploy as much effort as post-Great Depression America of Roosevelt has done in ten years and two New Deals .

Biden does not pretend

, again exclaims

Liberation

,

and his battle plan goes beyond a classic Keynesian revival: to major infrastructures - in particular transport - are thus added investments in favor of the energy transition, and especially direct aid. in the social fields

.

(…)

Even stronger

, continues

Liberation

,

the 46th American president is on the way to achieve a political tour de force: a big Machiavellian gap to satisfy in the same spirit his lauders and despisers.

On the left, the pro-Sanders of the social wing of the Democratic Party applaud.

The most modest of the Republican electoral base see, in the direct aid announced, the echo of the promises of

"America First"

brandished by Trump during the campaign.

What Donald dreamed of, Joe does, his way.

 "

The voice of the poorest inaudible?

Return to France with

La Croix,

which intends to defend the word of the poorest… As part of the renovation of the Economic and Social Council, its members have been reduced from 233 to 175. And “ 

surprise and reprobation

 ” exclaims the Catholic daily, the organization for the defense of the poorest, ATD Fourth World, finds itself ousted from the Council, "

 the third assembly of the Republic, supposed to reflect civil society ...

 "

And La Croix proclaimed his dismay: “

It is incomprehensible that the issue of the fight against poverty bears the cost of this reform.

All the more incomprehensible since it was precisely the honor of this assembly to have hosted the words of Father Joseph Wresinski and that of Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz.

On behalf of ATD Fourth World, they advanced the fight against poverty and gave a voice to the voiceless.

This fight is never over

, thunders the Catholic daily.

The distribution of seats in the Economic, Social and Environmental Council must be changed.

 "

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