Europe 1 2:12 p.m., January 6, 2022

Emmanuel Macron he convinced the antivax with his shocking remarks?

This Wednesday, the number of new first-time vaccinations had in any case never been as high as since October 1, with 66,000 first-time vaccinations.

Who are these people who have decided to take the plunge?

And why are they doing it now?

Europe 1 went to meet them in a vaccination center in the Paris suburbs. 

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A record that the majority is happy about.

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced yesterday to the Assembly that 66,000 first-time vaccinations had just been recorded, the day after Emmanuel Macron's shocking remarks.

This figure had never been reached since October 1.

How to explain this rebound?

Who are the people who decided to take the plunge, and why now? 

"I came backwards"

At the vaccination center of Nogent-sur-Marne, in the Paris suburbs, we first find the most resistant, those who have tried to push back the injection at all costs.

But for Linda, 24, not having a health pass had become far too restrictive.

"Frankly, I came backwards. I do it because I have no choice", she testifies at the microphone of Europe 1. "I was tested. I paid 25 euros for the antigen test and currently, I do not have enough resources ", explains the student, tired of the restrictions.

"I can't go to a restaurant, I can't go to the movies. I wasn't convinced enough to get vaccinated, I'm still not." 

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More and more primary vaccinations

But they are not all equally reluctant.

Sandrine, for example, preferred to wait because she was pregnant.

"I gave birth there, it's been three months. I stopped breastfeeding. For me, it was normal not to be vaccinated. It was always as a precaution. It was not for me. but compared to my child ", she underlines on Europe 1. In Nogent-sur-Marne, the doctors note it well: the first-time vaccines are more and more numerous to come.

More than forty are expected today in this vaccination center. 

Invited to the microphone of Romain Desarbres this afternoon on Europe 1, Philippe Amouyel, epidemiologist and professor of Public Health at the University Hospital of Lille, was optimistic about the end of the epidemic peak.

"We are in an extremely special phase. What we can hope is that all of this will eventually stabilize, probably by the summer," he said.

"We hope, apart from variants that would emerge unexpectedly, to switch to a pandemic mode, with probably regular vaccination every year. Since apparently, tropism is still the habit of this virus. It comes to visit us more seasonally. winter ".