Covid-19 in France: procrastination on a strategy
A nurse prepares to perform a vaccination in an nursing home in Bobigny (Ile de France).
December 30, 2020. REUTERS - CHARLES PLATIAU
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Harsh criticized for the more than slow start of the vaccination process in France, the government changed gear this weekend.
In a more than prudent communication campaign - "this delay, I assume", said, a few days ago, Olivier Véran - the executive now says that we must accelerate.
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There were the masks, then the tests.
Now here is the controversy over vaccination and government communication errors.
Obsessed by the "vaccinosceptics", the executive would he have had too careful, too negative communication?
It is clear that in a few days, the discourse has radically changed.
Before the holidays, Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health claimed a gradual process: first nursing homes, then caregivers, then the over 65s and then the rest of the French from spring.
Faced with the epidemic resumption in the Grand Est and in the South, in the face of criticism from the scientific world and elected officials, and after what looks like the reprimand of President Emmanuel Macron during his vows ("
I will not leave (... ) an unjustified slowness to settle
”), change of communication this weekend.
The ministers follow one another on the television sets and try to calm things down: the process will accelerate with -in particular- the earlier than expected vaccination of caregivers.
In this turn for the moment, a big absent: the Prime Minister.
We were unfortunately used to losing battles against #Covid, like that of masks, but on vaccines we reached the fiasco #GGRMC pic.twitter.com/EpLNnRr89O
- Yannick Jadot (@yjadot) January 4, 2021
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