Has the EU ordered seven doses of Covid-19 vaccine per person?

• For several weeks, Internet users have been claiming that the European Commission has already planned several recall campaigns against Covid-19.

  The proof: she would have ordered the equivalent of seven doses per person, "including babies"!

• An affirmation relayed a few days ago on the CNews set by a speaker.

• However, the calculation is wrong. 

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  took out the calculator - and obtained clarification from the European Commission.

“We've got plenty of callbacks planned for you.

You have seven doses of purchased [per person] by the European Union.

“On TikTok, the extract of an intervention by clinical psychologist Marie-Estelle Dupont from the CNews set has been accumulating views for a few days.

The professional was the guest of L'Heure des Pros on November 11 to discuss the fight against Covid-19.

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On social networks, this figure has been circulating since the summer within the antivax sphere.

“According to the orders, Alexandra Henrion-Caude made the division: 7 doses including babies,” writes for example a user who, like several others, attributes this calculation to the former Inserm researcher, whose he institute broke up.

The geneticist is one of the main opponents of the health policy implemented by the government.

In a series of tweets published at the end of July 2021, Alexandra Henrion-Caude presents a complex count of the doses ordered in Europe and comes to the conclusion that the number of orders is equivalent to four or even seven injections per European.

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To understand his calculation, hold on tight. The geneticist assumes that Brussels has ordered 1.8 billion doses, which she divides by the 447 million Europeans. A result of four doses per person. An erroneous calculation, since this order of 1.8 billion corresponds only to the last contract made by the EU with Pfizer. Half of this contract concerns a pre-order, specifies the European Commission.

But it is not over, since it is necessary, according to her, to add to this the 200 million doses ordered by France in December 2020. An "order" which in reality is part of the distribution of the first contracts signed by Brussels.

Anyway, Alexandra Henrion-Caude divides this figure by the French population - which she estimates at 64 million, although we are currently more than 67 million -, which gives three doses "to add to the previous four" .

And here we come across the famous seven doses per person.

But between the doses ordered or only pre-ordered, those which concern France and those which emanate from the European Union… you will have understood it, the calculation of the geneticist is not relevant.

More broadly, however, dividing the number of doses ordered by the number of inhabitants in the EU is not applicable.

In total, to date, Brussels has ordered or pre-ordered 4.6 billion doses of vaccine.

Of this quantity, only 2.4 billion have been delivered or ordered definitively, specifies the European Commission on its site.

The difference concerns a purchase option on 900 million doses of Pfizer, and 965 million so-called “candidate” vaccines.

For the latter, they can only be bought definitively if their placing on the market is approved.

This is the case with Valneva which is in “preliminary discussion”, as well as with CureVac, Novavax and Sanofi-GSK, which are under development.

Moreover, in their calculation, the distributors of this false information did not take into account participation in the Covax mission.

This is a "global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to vaccines against Covid-19 for all countries, regardless of their income level", summarizes the WHO.

The EU and member states have thus planned "to help secure at least 1.8 billion doses for 92 low and lower middle income countries," the European Commission told

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