General practitioners will have a leading role in the French vaccination campaign against the coronavirus.

They are the best placed to identify priority people, but also to convince reluctant patients to be vaccinated. 

City doctors on the front line in vaccination.

If Emmanuel Macron gave the broad outlines of the future vaccination campaign against the coronavirus - the most vulnerable in January, and the general public between April and June - it is indeed the Prime Minister who is responsible for presenting the strategy overall.

Thursday, Jean Castex will therefore have to say at a press conference who will vaccinate these millions of French people, and in which places the treatment will be administered.

The objective stated by the government is above all not to reproduce the error of vaccination against the H1N1 flu.

In 2009, the government strategy was based on chain vaccines.

An idea coming from the top of the State and applied directly by the prefects.

But the great vaccinodromes have turned out to be masterly failures. 

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General practitioners, the best placed to vaccinate

So this time, the reverse strategy will be put in place.

The government wants to start from the field, from the 52,000 general practitioners present in France.

Several reasons have prompted the government to opt for this strategy.

First, they are the ones who know the most vulnerable patients.

Close to their patients, they are also able to more easily persuade a Frenchman who is reluctant to be vaccinated to take the plunge.

They know how to use words to remove doubts, sums up at the microphone of Europe 1, Jean-Paul Hamon, the honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France. 

"The best argument I have is without hesitation to tell them that I am going to get the vaccine. The same goes for people who have a reluctance towards hepatitis B, I tell them that I vaccinated my son and grandchildren. "

And this will not be an easy task, since only "20% of French people" plan to be vaccinated as soon as possible, according to a BVA poll.

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A short delay in administering the treatment 

Then there is the question of the place in which these vaccinations will be able to be carried out,

especially

when the remedy proposed by the German-American tandem Pfizer / BioNTech must be stored at -80 degrees Celsius.

The doses will be stored in special freezers which are fitted to more than a hundred storage locations throughout the territory.

Once out of their cold room, health professionals will have a maximum of five days to vaccinate patients in nursing homes, doctors' offices, not to mention a hundred hospitals and some pharmacies.