Several renowned doctors were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Wednesday in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the Paris region.

Television presenter Michel Cymes told of his vaccination at the microphone of Europe 1 and referred to "a normal vaccination", saying he wanted to reassure the French.

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To face the mistrust expressed by some French people on vaccination against Covid-19, about fifteen personalities from the medical world were vaccinated on Wednesday.

Among them, the specialists Axel Kahn and René Frydman, the television presenter Marina Carrère d'Encausse and the famous doctor Michel Cymes.

All of them are caregivers over the age of 50 and therefore have priority to be vaccinated, which they did at the Aulnay-sous-Bois hospital center in the Paris suburbs.

At the microphone of Europe 1 Wednesday, Michel Cymes spoke of "normal vaccination".

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"I don't have any gills that have grown since I got the vaccine"

"We do not feel the messenger RNA pass and go into my cells to modify my genetic heritage. Everything is fine", reassured the star of France Televisions.

"It's media coverage, it's like Mauricette (named after the first person to have been vaccinated as part of the campaign in France, note), there are TVs and radios."

For him, "the idea is to say: all these people who are here did it and I don't have gills that have grown since I was vaccinated".

"There is no alternative. We have seen that the drugs do not work. It is only the vaccine that will get us out of there and so we do it to tell people: go ahead, we did it, do it, ”he added.

After their vaccination, the personalities received a visit from the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

"They decided to get vaccinated together because they wanted to show that it is a chance," he said.

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"We have to be consistent with what we say to viewers, we are in the incentive, so the goal is to overcome reluctance by being vaccinated publicly," said Marina Carrère d'Encausse.

The 15 health professionals vaccinated on the site were not the first, since the vaccinations against Covid-19 had started the day before, the Robert Ballanger hospital in Aulnay having the refrigerators necessary to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. .