On October 15, 2021, several thousand caregivers were suspended from their activity with the entry into force of the vaccination obligation against the coronavirus.
Since then, these doctors or nurses who practice in hospitals or in nursing homes, and more generally the employees of these health establishments cannot resume their activity unless they accept the injection.
Although it is in the minority, their reintegration seems to be off to a bad start.
On Friday, the High Authority for Health (HAS), whose opinions serve as the basis for the government's public health decisions, said it was "in favor of maintaining the obligation to vaccinate against (the) Covid-19 for personnel working in health and medico-social establishments.
Ineffective vaccines?
Yet recent weeks have seen an upsurge in debate, particularly in the political sphere, over whether to reinstate them.
Proponents of reintegration argue that Covid vaccines have lost much of their effectiveness against disease transmission, although they remain protective on an individual level against severe forms.
But this green light from the High Authority is not on the agenda: “the data are not such as to call into question this vaccination obligation today”, judges the HAS.
This highlights the current large number of contaminations in France, linked to the BA.5 lineage of the Omicron variant, and is against the argument that vaccines no longer have any collective interest.
Even if the vaccines have largely lost their effectiveness against contamination, it has not completely disappeared, in particular in the months following a booster dose, judges the authority.
The obligation to be vaccinated therefore promotes "better protection of people treated or accompanied, first and foremost the most vulnerable", concludes the HAS.
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