• On social networks, Olivier Véran has been the subject of very targeted criticism in recent days.

  • Two assertions attributed to the Minister of Health arouse the anger of Internet users: they would prove both the uselessness of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine and the establishment of a two-tier society between those vaccinated and those who have not received an injection.

  • These words, although authentic, are either truncated or taken out of context.

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As announced by the government in recent weeks, terraces and non-essential shops have started to reopen.

And if many customers are delighted by the gradual end of measures to fight against the coronavirus, Olivier Véran is for his part targeted by a crossfire of angry Internet users on Facebook.

For several days, two quotes attributed to the Minister of Health have earned him much criticism.

The first, supposed to have been spoken on BFMTV on May 17, would reveal the government's desire to establish a two-tier society, between people who have been vaccinated and those who have not received an injection: “People who will not be injected. not vaccinate will be at a disadvantage compared to those who will be vaccinated.

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The second, which had been circulating for several months and has seen a resurgence of visibility recently, would be an admission of the ineffectiveness of vaccines against Covid-19.

"Vaccinated people are also those who are the most exposed to serious forms and to death in the event of initial ineffectiveness of the vaccine or post-vaccination reinfection or the virulence of a variant", Olivier Véran reportedly admitted to Europe 1 on March 31.

In other words, the priority population for vaccination would in reality be particularly exposed to Covid-19.

If these two comments were indeed made by the Minister of Health, they are each taken out of context.

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Guest of BFMTV for a special evening, Monday, May 17, Olivier Véran actually uttered a sentence longer than that used by Internet users, and which left no room for doubt as to the substance of his remarks: will not be vaccinated will be at a disadvantage compared to those who will be vaccinated.

Because the people who will be vaccinated will be protected against the virus and the unvaccinated people will not be protected and therefore they will be able to contract the disease.

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The continuous news channel, which had broadcast in a tweet the full video extract of its response, itself participated in the confusion since it relayed it by citing only the truncated version of its quote, which could suggest that Olivier Véran spoke of an inequality of access to certain public places.

Faced with the magnitude of this controversy, BFMTV split a second tweet the next day to complete the minister's response: "CLARIFICATION: Olivier Véran affirms that unvaccinated people will be 'disadvantaged' compared to vaccinated people" because they will not be protected against the virus ".

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A response to the request for deconfinement of a vaccinated octogenarian

Olivier Véran's second statement, on the alleged ineffectiveness of vaccines, was not made during an interview: it emanates from a “response memory” from the minister revealed by Europe 1 on March 30, 2021, that he had addressed to an octogenarian who took legal action to demand to be deconfined because of his vaccination against Covid-19.

"In [the document] that Europe 1 was able to consult, the Minister of Health considers that it is premature in the state of scientific knowledge to differentiate the" rules relating to traffic restrictions depending on whether or not people have received vaccine doses ". Olivier Véran invokes four arguments. On the one hand, "the partial effectiveness of vaccines", and secondly the fact that "the effectiveness of vaccines has become particularly contingent [uncertain] due to the appearance of new variants". », Explained the radio.

And to add the quote which has since become viral: "Thirdly," vaccinated people are also those who are most exposed to serious forms and to death in the event of initial ineffectiveness of the vaccine or of post-vaccination reinfection or of the virulence of a variant. "

Finally, "the vaccine does not prevent transmission of the virus to third parties. The impact of vaccination on the spread of the virus is not yet known".

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In doing so, Olivier Véran was only emphasizing certain limits - publicly recognized - of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, which do not protect 100% against the disease, as well as the difficulty of deconfining the country at a time when vaccination was still too little spread over the territory.

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