Coronavirus: in Bordeaux, caregivers want "to be vaccinated as much as possible"

Now available for caregivers over the age of 50, vaccination has attracted many white coats, as noted by Europe 1 at Bordeaux University Hospital.

An essential process in the event of a third wave that could reduce the scale of the epidemic to an "annual flu" even argues the ARS.   

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While we fear the imminence of a third wave and the contagiousness of the variants of the coronavirus, France is striving to speed up vaccination.

To do this, the campaign targets nursing home residents over 75, but also in particular caregivers over 50.

In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where the incidence rate is increasing in all departments, except in Lot-et-Garonne, this week saw a very clear increase, over the days, in the number of vaccinated.

Among them, many health professionals who want to be able to fulfill their mission in the coming weeks, but also to show their confidence in the vaccine.

This is all the more important for them as France is the country most resistant to the vaccine.

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"We need to protect health professionals"

This is particularly the case of François Martial, president of the regional Union of pharmacists met by Europe 1, when he came to receive his first injection in Bordeaux, in one of the 18 vaccination centers that opened in New- Aquitaine this week.

"As a pharmacist I believe, knowing the product, that we do not have to hesitate: we must be vaccinated as much as possible." 

“We need to protect health professionals,” insists Benoît Elleboode, who heads the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of New Aquitaine.

An essential process in the event of a third wave, he recalls, since in addition to the vaccination of people at risk, these remedies against severe forms will prevent "hospital embolization".

"In the end, it will become like an annual flu. We will not need to block the economy, or resort to restrictive measures."  

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A new era in immunization

"I am a virologist, and since I did my studies we have been told about the vaccine of the future, Messenger RNA. But the means had never been put on these vaccines until now", explains Marie- Édith Lafon, president of the Bordeaux University Hospital who did not hesitate to be vaccinated.

"The only advantage of this pandemic is that the States have finally paid for the research that allows this work to be finalized. And I really believe that this opens a new era in the field of vaccines and not just for the Covid."