A geriatrician at the Champmaillot nursing home in Dijon, Professor Pierre Jouanny is one of the first members of the medical profession to have received the vaccine against Covid-19.
In his eyes, it is incumbent on medical staff to lead by example to fight against the mistrust of the French vis-à-vis vaccination.
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In France, after a first series of injections on Sunday, the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus should be deployed this week in about twenty establishments for the elderly.
Until now, only two hospital structures have been able to benefit from the first doses, in Sevran in Seine-Saint-Denis, and in Dijon, in Bourgogne Franche-Comté, a region which remains a focus of the epidemic.
There, within the Champmaillot nursing home, three people were vaccinated: two residents and a geriatrician.
Professor Pierre Jouanny is pleased to be one of the very first beneficiaries of the vaccine.
"I appreciate, in all immodesty, to be indeed a symbol. For me, it was extremely important to send a strong message, exemplary I would say, to protect the patients", responded this doctor at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"We must wring our necks out of all false rumors"
France remains one of the countries where mistrust of the vaccine is the highest.
According to a survey carried out by BVA for
Le Journal du Dimanche
, only 44% of French people plan to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
"We must explain. We must wring our necks out of all the false rumors that exist so that all caregivers are vaccinated and so that the entire population at risk in France, and perhaps even the entire population, can go through vaccination" , continues Pierre Jouanny.
"Vaccination is for me the only strategy currently at our disposal to overcome this particularly troublesome infection that is Covid-19", he concludes.