In several countries around the world, such as Israel, a significant proportion of new Covid-19 contamination concerns people who have already been vaccinated.

For Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Poincaré hospital in Garches and guest of Europe 1, Tuesday evening, there is no need to be alarmed against what appears at first glance as a paradox.

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This is a figure that may, at first glance, encourage people not to get vaccinated: in Israel, 40% of new coronavirus infections concern people who have already received their injections, as the former director general recently stated. of the Health of the Hebrew State.

However, the current virulence of the Delta variant partly explains this figure and should not discourage the French in their vaccination effort, at a time when a sort of vaccine plateau is emerging in France.

This is in any case the message of Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Poincaré hospital in Garches and guest of Europe 1, Tuesday evening.

Towards only benign forms?

"It's absolutely normal" to have people vaccinated in these new contaminations, reassures the specialist straight away.

"When you have a lot of people vaccinated, by definition you have people who will end up in the lot" (new cases).

For him, the real question is whether these positive but vaccinated people have serious forms of the disease.

“The answer is no,” he says.

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And the infectious disease specialist to predict the evolution of Covid-19 in the coming months and years.

"What will happen is that the Covid will make a breakthrough in the coronavirus family. Every winter, instead of saying 'I have aches, I have the flu', we will have a runny nose. and we will say 'I have the Covid'. As we are vaccinated, we will not do a serious form, "anticipates the guest of Julian Bugier on Europe 1.

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"Time is against us"

We must therefore not be mistaken about the real objective of vaccination: it is not a question of preventing all cases of Covid-19, but of preventing all serious forms as a priority, and

a fortiori

deaths. A goal that can only be achieved by vaccination, recalls Benjamin Davido, while only 30% of the French population of age to be vaccinated has received both doses. "Time is against us," he insists in the face of the rapid progression of the Delta variant.