The vaccination campaign is struggling to take off in France, with less than 400 people vaccinated this weekend against tens of thousands, or even more already in Germany.

"We don't have the right vaccination strategy, we don't have good governance," laments Frédéric Bizard, health economist, on Europe 1 on Saturday.

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Taking a look across the Rhine at vaccination against Covid-19 is enough to shudder the authorities in charge of the vaccination campaign in France.

In Germany, at least 78,000 people have been vaccinated against the disease, according to figures available on Friday on the independent site CovidTracker, which compiles data from health authorities.

In France, only 332 people had received an injection on Friday, according to CovidTracker.

Claimed initially to convince the more reluctant French and obtain consent, the slowness of the vaccination campaign now worries the executive, which is particularly facing criticism from the Academy of Medicine.

The daily number of injections could therefore increase significantly in the coming days.

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Opening of vaccination to caregivers over 50

"Germany is probably more than 100,000 people vaccinated today under the same conditions as us. We have not yet reached a thousand", laments Frédéric Bizard, professor at ESCP and health economist, Saturday on Europe 1. During his wishes to the French on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron showed his willingness to accelerate by promising that he "will not let (t), for bad reasons, an unjustified slowness settle" in the framework of the vaccination campaign.

As a result, the target audience for the first waves of injection is expected to expand as early as next week.

Caregivers over 50, who were initially to be vaccinated during the second phase of vaccination scheduled for February / March, will be able to receive the virus from Monday, alongside nursing home residents.

"Who other than health professionals to be the best ambassadors? We know that we need ambassadors because there is mistrust in this country", comments for his part Frédéric Bizard.

Finally, from the end of January, vaccination centers will be set up in town.

They will be dedicated this time to all retirees, gradually, from the oldest to the youngest.

"We don't have the right strategy"

According to Frédéric Bizard, it is above all necessary "for the State to let the regions manage the logistics on the spot and entrust the implementation and responsibility of the campaign to health professionals" in order to resolve a governance problem.

"We don't have the right strategy because we think only of the medical aspect, that is to say that we said to ourselves that these are the most fragile, among the most fragile, that But public health is not only medical; it is also social, logistics, political ... So you have to have a transversal approach (...) When you think about 'all the factors that will influence this vaccination campaign, we see that we cannot, with a messenger RNA vaccine which is extremely complicated to manage logistically, focus only on nursing homes, ”he adds.

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The concern of caregivers

In university hospitals, the announcement of the acceleration of vaccinations for nursing staff also raises questions about governance.

"I am waiting to know how [we are going] to vaccinate people like me, that is to say caregivers over 50 years old", testifies to Europe 1 Philippe Froguel, from the University Hospital of Lille.

"We will have to receive something, that we are told to introduce ourselves somewhere ... In foreign countries, such as Germany, England or Israel, for example, everyone has received an invitation: we take appointment, things are organized. My great concern today is the real inability to move from intention to reality, "he notes.

Today, in reality, the vaccine problem is very vague ", adds the doctor.

In France as elsewhere in Europe, part of the difficulties also stems from the fact that only one vaccine is available, only the Pfizer-BioNTech product having been approved at this stage.

The German-American alliance also explained on Friday that it planned to rapidly increase the production of doses in Europe to strengthen supply.