Vaccination: what will the "citizen collective" announced by Emmanuel Macron be used for?

The first vaccines against Covid-19 will arrive in France at the end of December or at the beginning of January, the head of state promised on Tuesday evening.

And to involve the French more in their deployment, Emmanuel Macron also mentioned the establishment of a "collective of citizens" which will make it possible to involve the population.

But for the moment, little information has filtered out as to the form that this assembly could take. 

This collective could be made up of 150 citizens drawn by lot on the model of the Climate Convention, as well as smaller panels of 20 or 30 people, as already organized by the Ethics Committee on assisted reproduction, for example. .

The idea, in any case, is to create a place for debate in which citizens' questions about vaccines and the virus can clearly be expressed.

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Because it should be remembered that France records a strong mistrust vis-à-vis vaccination.

"Hearing the legitimate questions that citizens ask themselves, and which are very diverse, is extremely important. Numerous scientific articles on vaccination demonstrate that the way in which a vaccination program is implemented is as important as the vaccination itself", emphasizes epidemiologist France Lert to Europe 1.

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And for this to work, it is not so much the number of participants that counts as their representativeness.

We need a great diversity of points of view: therefore citizens of all ages, all social classes and all regions, insists Daniel Benamouzig, sociologist and member of the Scientific Council.

One thing is certain, the organization will have to be done very quickly, ideally before the first vaccinations.