Covid-19: pharmacists and general practitioners want to vaccinate with Moderna

The Covid-19 vaccination campaign continues to gain momentum. From Monday, those under 50 will be able to be vaccinated in turn, five days ahead of the initial schedule. A vaccination that will take place in a center and therefore without general practitioners and pharmacists. The latter claim to have access to suitable vaccines, such as Moderna.

The French vaccination campaign against Covid-19 recorded a new record this weekend, with more than 600,000 injections carried out in one day, Thursday.

But the executive still wants to accelerate the pace.

From Monday, those under 50 will be able to be vaccinated five days ahead of the initial schedule.

Then, from 4 p.m. on Wednesday, all adults can try to be vaccinated, on one condition: that a time slot is declared free for the next day.

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"There have been experiments which seem conclusive"

These appointments can only be made at the vaccination center, which pharmacists and doctors regret.

They do not have the appropriate sera for a population under 55 years old.

On Europe 1 Friday, Jacques Battistoni, president of the MG France union, called for the arrival of the Moderna vaccine in town medicine: "The Moderna vaccine is quite usable in town. This is something that is being considered with the ministry. Health for several weeks. There were experiments in Moselle at the end of April, which seem conclusive. " 

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"The best placed to obtain massive support from the population"

For Jacques Battistoni, doctors and pharmacists are also more likely to convince their patients to be vaccinated. "We all know patients who say 'I will get vaccinated if you get vaccinated, but it's complicated for me to go to a vaccination center. And then, we know that convincing people is our job. and our asset in the vaccination campaign, because we know our patients well. We know their reluctance. We also know which arguments are going to be important for them. We are the professionals best placed to obtain a more massive membership of the population, ”he said.

For its part, the government has confirmed its goal of reaching 20 million first injections by May 15, then 30 million injections by June 15. An objective which could make it possible, if it were reached, to better fight against the virus this summer.