If the vaccination campaign continues, and 36% of the total population has received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, some doctors see patients arriving at the hospital who became infected just after their vaccine, for lack of vigilance.

And call for continuing to respect barrier gestures. 

In France, the health situation continues to improve.

The number of hospitalized patients continues to decline, including in intensive care, and 36% of the total population has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

But some doctors are already warning about the "vaccinee syndrome".

Because, in hospitals, they see more and more patients who release barrier gestures after their first injection, and become contaminated. 

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"People feel protected"

Indeed, as soon as they are vaccinated, some people think that their immunity has been acquired.

In his 12-bed Covid unit, the infectious disease specialist at Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, Benjamin Davido, recently admitted two patients who had just received their first injection.

"They probably did not pay attention and relaxed the barrier gestures. They became contaminated before the vaccine could take effect," he told Europe 1.

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“Diagnosis is often delayed because people feel protected and think about all diagnoses except Covid,” he continues. “It is considered a failure of the vaccination, but it is not.” This doctor recalls that the vaccine begins to produce its effects on the body between 14 to 20 days after the first injection, but not before! 

"Keep in mind that the virus is still circulating"

Jean-Michel Constantin, head of intensive care at the Parisian hospital of Pitié Salpêtrière, makes the same observation in his department. "As soon as we are vaccinated and we meet with family or friends, we tend to get closer, to tighten hands, to kiss each other again," he regrets. "But you have to keep in mind that the virus is still circulating. It is circulating less and less - the more you are vaccinated, the less it circulates - but there is always." These doctors are categorical: you have to wait 15 days after the second injection to be as protected as possible.