The AstraZeneca vaccine will be validated "before the end of January"

Guest of Europe Midi Weekend, Dominique Le Guludec, president of the High Authority of Health (HAS), indicated that the AstraZeneca vaccine will be validated by the end of January.

Previously, the validation of this vaccine, which is already valid in Great Britain, was scheduled for February-March. 

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It will be validated sooner than expected.

While France is accelerating the vaccination against the coronavirus, the president of the High Authority of Health (HAS), Dominique Le Guludec, announces at the microphone of

Europe Midi

this Saturday that the vaccine developed by the AstraZeneca laboratory will be "validated before the end of January ".

There should therefore be a maximum of three weeks between the validation, announced yesterday, of the remedy developed by Moderna and that of the Swedish-British. 

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A fourth vaccine validated before the end of January

It is even possible that the month of January will see the validation of a third vaccine, the one developed by the Dutch and American manufacturers Janssens Johnson & Johnson.

Because here also "the file accelerates", indicates Dominique Le Guludec.

“Unfortunately, there are a lot of positive cases, but this allows patients to be included in [clinical] trials more quickly and to achieve the required number more quickly” before any validation. 

As to whether these future vaccines will be effective against the British variant of the coronavirus, the president of the HAS wants to be cautious, but optimistic.

"The first studies are reassuring, but we do not yet have all the answers: do they protect as much? Will the effectiveness be the same? We will be able to respond in the coming days."

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Vaccinate young people after fragile people?

Scientific nonsense

Asked also about the relevance of Ségolène Royal's request, made to Emmanuel Macron on Friday during the tribute to François Mitterrand, to vaccinate young people as a priority after the most fragile, Dominique Le Guludec affirms: "scientifically it makes no sense . "

"If you vaccinate young people, it will take you months and months to reduce hospitalizations and deaths, and in the meantime a lot of people are dying."

And remember that "when we have vaccinated all these fragile people, even if (sic) we have not yet broken the epidemic, young people will be able to breathe".