• The departmental vaccination center of Coudoux, in Bouches-du-Rhône, lacks vaccine candidates this week.

  • For SDIS 13, this situation can be explained by the long weekend, which delayed the appointment, and the arrival of Moderna in pharmacies.

  • At the Velodrome in Marseille, the free slots are compensated by people who go directly to the site at the end of the day.

  • According to the ARS Paca, one in five people has received two doses of the vaccine in the Bouches-du-Rhône, better than the national average.

“Come on, there are still slots. “In Coudoux, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the departmental vaccination center is struggling these days to refuel. If the day of Saturday is full, this Tuesday morning there were nearly 2,000 places to be vaccinated this week from Pfizer or Moderna, to be reserved via Doctolib. “Every week we receive from the ARS an average of 10,000 doses of vaccine in the Coudoux center,” indicates Captain Stéphane Guyot, communications manager of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS 13). We are normally on a rate of 1,500 vaccinations per day. "

Since the center opened on March 6, this is the second time that a call for volunteers has been launched via the local media. "We put that this time on the account of the extended weekend," continues Stéphane Guyot, who does not want to be more worried. “So far, every time we have had a relaunch in the media, it is completed. With the amount of news and the evolution of eligibility conditions, people are a little lost. It may also have to do with Moderna, which is now available in pharmacies and private doctors. It is easier to get vaccinated nearby. "

The Coudoux vaccination center, one of the six centers managed by the department with operational support from SDIS 13, intends to "reach 100,000 injections this week".

On the Marseille vaccine site, managed by the Marseille fire brigade battalion (BMPM), more than 6,000 doses are available every day.

“There is also this notion of not always full time slots, but people do not necessarily have the reflex to make an appointment online and show up spontaneously in the evening, so that we arrive with the additional lists to give all. the doses delivered ”, assures the BMPM.

"Ways of making appointments that have changed"

For its part, the ARS does not feel the breathlessness of the vaccination for the moment.

"There may be ways of making an appointment for vaccination that have changed, people may anticipate less", advances Caroline Ageron, director of the Bouches-du-Rhône delegation at ARS Paca .

Appointments that left within half an hour once released on an online platform are more completed on a day-to-day basis.

"Appointments end up being made," she says, recalling that the Bouches-du-Rhône more or less follow the national rhythm of the vaccination campaign.

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More than 680,000 people have thus received a first dose of vaccine, or 33% of the population of Bouches-du-Rhône (against 35% in France).

And for a complete vaccination (both doses), the department even does a little better than the national average with one in five people vaccinated, or 18% of the population (against 16% for France).

According to SDIS 13, no vaccine dose is ever lost.

“The vaccination center is located next to our departmental pharmacy, explains Stéphane Guyot.

We thaw and we prepare the doses according to the open slots.

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