Covid: majority deputies call for "an end to anti-vaccine discourse"

"Protect yourself. Let's protect ourselves": around thirty majority deputies call in a column published by

to "put an end to the anti-vaccine discourse" and ask the government for "simple and transparent messages" on vaccination against Covid-19.

The signatories also claim to rely on "the local health network" to "meet the challenge" of vaccination in a country where nearly one in two French people say they do not want to be vaccinated against the virus.

"Vaccination, especially in the country of Pasteur, is a scientific fact, a rational and historical reality, complex but indisputable", write the parliamentarians, including Bertrand Bouyx, LREM deputy of Calvados.

"France, they add, has always contributed to major advances and progress in the medical field. For this reason, it will be carefully observed in its ability to set up its vaccination protocol" against Covid-19.

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Mobilize the local health network

Recalling that vaccination is "a citizen act because it ensures the protection of all and especially the weakest", elected officials are calling for "simple and transparent" messages to gain the confidence of the French.

"In this fight, France and other countries are facing naturalist movements which are spreading, especially on social networks, the idea that our natural defenses have the capacity to fight alone against the disease. weaker, it is to forget the sick and the deaths which accumulate every day, "they insist, while France crossed the 60,000 dead mark on Friday since the start of the epidemic.

The signatories consider that "we must first and foremost mobilize the local health network. Family doctors, nurses and pharmacists must be included in the process".

Finally, they believe that "nothing is more false" than to say that "the development of a vaccine so quickly" is "impossible and therefore suspect", recalling the existence of "accelerated procedures" and that "every year , a new vaccine against seasonal flu is being developed ".

Promising "transparency" to generate "confidence", the executive presented this week to Parliament its vaccine strategy.

It must begin in the last week of December for the elderly housed in establishments such as nursing homes, but not before the end of spring for the non-priority population.