While the government is studying the possibility of vaccinating children against Covid-19, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan stepped up on Sunday to oppose this idea.
The risk of this operation is greater than its benefit, judged the candidate of Debout France for the presidential election.
"It is serious to make the French believe that the vaccine is the only solution", insisted during the program Dimanche en politique on France 3 Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who denies being anti-vaccine.
Vaccination of children from the age of 12 will "perhaps" be proposed in France in the long term, Health Minister Olivier Véran explained on Monday, while stressing the priority given to the current vaccination of adults.
The "precautionary principle"
For the president of Debout la France, if the benefit-risk ratio of the vaccine is favorable "for the elderly or in co-morbidity", conversely "for children and the very young where there is no risk of mortality of Covid, the risk of the vaccine is greater than the benefit, and there is a precautionary principle ”. In his eyes, for a child or a young person "ivermectin, which is refused in our country even though it works elsewhere, would be something much milder, more useful than this excessive vaccination which is not made for those who need it. We are delirious! "
The French Medicines Agency (ANSM) rejected in April a request for temporary authorization to use ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid-19.
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