The extension of the health pass makes many health and social actors fear that it will “further exclude” the poorest, who are already less vaccinated than the rest of the population.

Responsible for Secours populaire in Puy-de-Dôme, Nicole Rouvert experienced a heartbreak when a family remained at the door of the bus during a recent outing to an animal park organized by the charity.

“These people couldn't come because they didn't have a pass.

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Faced with the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the health pass, already mandatory since July 21 in cultural and leisure places, must be extended from August 9 to cafes, restaurants, mainline trains and domestic flights, as well as non-emergency patients and visitors to health establishments and retirement homes.

For the Communist deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Peu, “the health pass risks excluding more”.

Within companies, where "the law also introduces into the labor code a differentiation between employees on fixed-term contracts or temporary workers and others, with a threat of net job loss" in the event of non-vaccination.

Dramatic inequalities at school

Also at school with a new health protocol that will "further increase social inequalities", only non-vaccinated middle and high school students having to follow distance learning courses if a case of Covid is detected in their class. "Seine-Saint-Denis is the most contaminated and least vaccinated department, not because there is more antivax, but quite simply because there is a map of social inequalities which marks an under-vaccination in a department where 30% of the inhabitants do not have an attending physician, ”insists Stéphane Peu.

Defender of Rights Claire Hédon raised ten points of alert about the extension of the health pass, in a document published on July 20.

Among his concerns: "people in a situation of poverty could be doubly victims".

“The map of the weakest vaccinations overlaps that of poverty, the digital divide, access to public services.

The new measures thus run the risk of being both harder for precarious populations and of generating or increasing new inequalities ”, underlines Claire Hédon.

"Vaccine fracture"

In

Le Monde

of July 25, the health geographer Emmanuel Vigneron relied on the latest data from the Health Insurance to bring to light a triple "vaccine fracture" in a well vaccinated territory in the West and North and behind in the South-East, better in the towns than in the outskirts and more strongly in the well-off than in the most underprivileged. On Monday, the Order of Physicians was "deeply concerned about the conditions of the implementation" of the health pass in health establishments "which should not deprive patients of care".

A study by Dress (the statistical service of health and social ministries) published in July shows that poor people are three times more likely to forego care than others.

“We need more resources to reach out to these people and convince them,” insists Franck Dubois, responsible for family solidarity at Secours Catholique.

“The health pass gives birth to inequalities: the public authorities, by wanting to protect us, only increase them.

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