For the “Monsieur vaccine” of the government, if France wants to move closer to group immunity against Covid-19, it has no other choice than to vaccinate minors over 12 years old.

This new phase of vaccination, which is due to start on Tuesday, is even according to Alain Fischer an "arithmetic imperative".

"The idea of ​​vaccinating teenagers instead of reluctant adults is ethically unacceptable" but "opening Tuesday to teenagers is justified" because "to achieve group immunity, 90% of 12 to 100 year olds must be vaccinated ;

so that it will remain out of reach even by vaccinating almost all adults, ”says Professor Fischer in an interview with the

Journal du Dimanche

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The government announced on June 2 that young people between the ages of 12 and 18 could be vaccinated from June 15.

“Reduce the risk of school closures”

Alain Fischer also mentions for teenagers, who have a minimal health risk in the face of Covid-19, an “individual benefit in a social and psychological sense” because “they are paying too heavy a price for the pandemic” with school dropouts and psychological impacts very heavy for young people deprived of college or high school. "The vaccination will reduce the risk of closing establishments at the start of the school year, we know that teenagers participate as much as adults in the circulation of the virus, so we have to go," continues the official.

Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Saturday that the symbolic threshold of 30 million French people having received a first dose had been crossed.

It is a "beautiful symbol", according to Alain Fischer even if he finds "more telling to reason from the number of French protected".

"If we add people who have been fully vaccinated, those who have received a dose for at least two weeks and therefore are already partially immune, those who have natural immunity after having had the Covid, we arrive at around 32 million", calculates the doctor .

“So almost half of the population is protected.

There is group immunity on the horizon ”.

“But it's like a marathon where we have already run two-thirds.

And we know that the last will be the most difficult, ”warns Alain Fisher.

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