• After weeks of relative lull, demand for vaccines in Marseille is on the rise, so that several centers are full for the next few days.

  • This increase is linked to the vaccination booster now required by the government to benefit from a valid health pass.

  • Faced with this situation, the city of Marseille has notably reopened a large-scale vaccination center.

On this Wednesday afternoon, Mickaël is one of the few to have turned up by chance at Parc Chanot, where a long queue has formed.

"I am from Aix, and I was at the restaurant next door," he explains.

When I learned that the city of Marseille had opened a vaccine park, I told myself that I was going to try my luck!

"

Inside this vast vaccinodrome, which opened its doors on Wednesday, the same scenes that we could see during previous campaigns at his twin brother nestled in another wing of Parc Chanot, and closed for months, lack of demand.

Only the garlands above the signs and the plastic Christmas trees arranged here and there remind us that summer has passed… but that the health crisis is still there.

Centers already full

This new space was opened a few days after the closure of another vaccinodrome, in the Teisseire gymnasium, in the 9th arrondissement. health, Michèle Rubirola. In Teisseire, we deplored until recently that there were not enough people. We closed lines. We were able to accommodate 500 people per day without any problem, but we generally operated more than 100 or 200 people. "

However, the trend was reversed in just a few days, after Olivier Véran spoke out announcing the third mandatory dose to be able to benefit from the health pass.

There followed a rush for appointments, with clearly visible effects: it is impossible to get any time slot at present in the Arenc vaccination center, set up by the department and with a daily capacity. of 100 people, or in that of Mazenod, also departmental, and able to vaccinate up to 230 people per day.

A majority of third dose

Even in the Parc Chanot vaccinodrome, which can accommodate up to 2,500 people per day, the new vaccine breath is noticeable.

“Over the next ten days, it is full for the slots by appointment, at the rate of 2,000 people, details Thierry Zaveroni, head of vaccination centers in the city of Marseille.

We still take walk-in, at a rate of 500 per day.

We are generally full in the center of Grand Littoral at 500 per day, and we increase to 750 on Thursday and Saturday.

“Added to this is the vaccination center located rue Louis Astruc, in the 5th arrondissement, with a daily tonnage of 300 people.

Reception capacities which, except for this last stand, could be rapidly increased to meet demand.

Encourage the first dose in northern neighborhoods

Because on this first day of activity, no less than 1,700 appointments out of the 2,000 taken concern booster doses. "We still have 15% of first-time vaccines," said Thierry Zaveroni. A figure that is not a detail, in a city where vaccination coverage is very low, especially in the northern districts. “There are less than 45% of people who are vaccinated in the 15th arrondissement, the 14th and the 3rd,” recalls Michèle Rubirola. So there is all this delay to catch up! The third doses, at the limit, it was almost a routine, because people were already determined to come. There, we have to really go to those who did not have the skills, or who were initially resistant. "

In partnership with the city, the public assistance of the Hospitals of Marseille has also opened an ephemeral vaccination center in the city of Aygalades, operational every Thursday afternoon.

"For the past three weeks, we have been taking action every third Monday at the Saint-Louis health insurance fund," adds Thierry Zaveroni.

We are going as close as possible to populations who have difficulty in making a choice about vaccination.

The medical interview is then much longer, and the doctors show pedagogy.

On Monday, we did more than 80 vaccinations at that center.

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