• What if the number of booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine ultimately goes well beyond the third dose currently in force for the most fragile people?

  • A viral tweet maintains that they are destined to last "the rest of [our] life", citing as proof the extract of an interview with the president of the Moderna laboratory, Stéphane Bancel.

  • If he actually defends the idea of ​​an annual vaccination booster against Covid-19, in accordance with the position adopted long ago by his company, this scientific hypothesis remains considered among others, depending on future developments. virus. 

"Are you all ready to receive your anti-Covid booster doses for the rest of your life?"

Moderna's general manager, Stéphane Bancel, wants to finish you off slowly by getting rich!

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For this Twitter user opposed to health measures against Covid-19 - including vaccination -, it is obvious: the boss of one of the pharmaceutical companies concerned has long planned to "make profitable" his product by maximizing the number of injections reminders.

He wants as proof the video extract of an interview with Stéphane Bancel by a Quebec journalist, relayed in his tweet.

Are you all ready to receive your anti-COVID REMINDERS for the rest of your life?

The Managing Director of MODERNA Stéphane BANCEL wants to finish you slowly by getting rich💰!

It is thanks to your collaboration people of France🇫🇷 that all this continues🤬!

STOP🇫🇷👊🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/Sv5Yr4MpqM

- FREEDOM (@GaumontRene) October 12, 2021

In this sequence, the French president of the American group Moderna affirms in particular: “We must see that [the] Covid will not disappear, it is a virus with which we will have to live. But with regular reminders, it will be like the flu, we will live with it and very few people will be hospitalized. […] This is Moderna's commitment: we will continue to make recalls adapted to the variants until this pandemic becomes endemic and therefore it would be just living with one booster per year. "

And Stéphane Bancel to add: “I think we will have to have regular reminders all the rest of our lives, like the flu.

[…] I think that if we want to have a good winter […] a third dose, starting with the people most at risk, who were vaccinated the longest ago, it is really important to protect as much as possible. of people.

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This excerpt is authentic: it was broadcast on the Quebec channel LCN on August 24, 2021, when Moderna announced the launch of a factory in Canada.

If concerns around the Delta variant and a possible relaunch of the Covid-19 epidemic were then omnipresent in the world, Stéphane Bancel's mention of a potential annual vaccine booster was then nothing new nor surprising given the latest scientific knowledge on the virus.

The president of Moderna indeed evoked such a scenario from the month of May 2021 on the antenna of BFMTV: “We have to live with like the flu, we know how to do that very well.

So there is a period of a year or two that will be a bit complicated because we are not able to vaccinate the whole planet.

[…] We are in an interconnected world today […], and therefore we anticipate variants that will return to the northern hemisphere in the fall and next winter and therefore we know that the reminders will of course be very important ”.

The hypothesis of a disease that would become seasonal

At the time, researchers from the University of Utah, in the United States, precisely estimated in a study that Covid-19 could become a seasonal disease within ten years, due to the evolution of the disease. collective immunity - the hypothesis of a "trivialization" of the virus having been raised in March 2021.

On August 25, 2021, the day after Stéphane Bancel's intervention on LCN, Moderna's commercial director, Corinne Le Goff, specified for her part on BFMTV: "There is a scenario in which the virus continues to evolve and whose the level of transmissibility is increasingly important.

And in that case, we can consider a booster every year, like the flu shot.

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A generalization of the third dose which is still debated

On October 6, the High Authority for Health (HAS) recommended a third dose of vaccine for "caregivers, medical transport and professionals in the medico-social sector" as well as for those around immunocompromised people, while a campaign of recall was already underway since September for those over 65 and those at risk, such as diabetics.

Objective: to fight against the loss of effectiveness of anti-Covid vaccines over time, despite still high protection against severe forms of the disease.

Even if the circumstances “do not justify, at this stage, recommending the administration of an additional dose in the general population, (…) the HAS then underlined in its opinion, that the administration of a booster dose will probably become necessary in the coming months ”.

The European Medicines Authority paved the way for this on October 6 by authorizing the generalization of a recall to all adults, leaving the authorities of each country of the European Union the precise choice of the persons concerned. However, the need for such a booster dose is still the subject of much debate in the scientific world, its interest still to be assessed for the entire population.

Moreover, this booster dose must for the time being necessarily come from a Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, based on messenger RNA technology.

While it has so far advocated indifferently to use Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for booster doses of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine, the High Authority for Health temporarily recommends, as a precautionary principle, to no longer use Moderna due to cases of pericarditis and myocarditis which could be more important, especially in younger people, as reported by

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