"In the days to come", Jean Castex will launch a consultation around the compulsory vaccination of caregivers with associations of local elected officials and the presidents of parliamentary groups, the Prime Minister informed the Senate on Wednesday.

This consultation, which aims to involve those who are "in the driver's seat", will first focus on "the issue of compulsory vaccination for caregivers" but "also" on "recourse to the health pass to encourage even more people to get vaccinated ”and“ isolation issues ”of people sick with Covid-19, said the Prime Minister.

“At least 80%” of nursing staff vaccinated “by September”

Jean Castex was questioned by Claude Malhuret, president of the Les Indépendants group, who, noting that "many scientists advise compulsory vaccination" of nursing staff, questioned the relevance "of considering decisions in this direction before the fall". "The risk is clear: that of a fourth wave in the fall", particularly because of the spread of the delta variant, warned Claude Malhuret.

“Like all French people, I am shocked (…) when we see the epidemic reintroducing itself (…) through those whose vocation it is to protect and treat.

That is not admissible, ”replied Jean Castex, referring in particular to the recent case of a cluster in an Ehpad in the Landes.

The government set a target on Tuesday of “at least 80%” of nursing home staff and hospitals vaccinated against Covid “by September”, failing which “the way of an obligation” would be opened.

Towards "legislative measures"

Noting that "only 55% of professionals have received at least one dose" in nursing homes and long-term care units (USLD), the Ministers of Health Olivier Véran and of Autonomy Brigitte Bourguignon considered that this ratio was " insufficient ”, in a letter addressed to the directors of hospitals and retirement homes, dated Monday. The executive can already count on the support of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF), which called Wednesday in a press release for "compulsory vaccination of health professionals and all those in contact with patients", even if it means “Consider legislative measures”.

While "numerous indications suggest that the epidemic situation could deteriorate again from September", the FHF notably argues that "the vaccination of professionals contributes to not destabilizing the teams in the event of an epidemic resumption".

Pr Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council, also indicated on Wednesday morning that he had "changed his mind" on this subject: "I was against the obligation, but it seems to me that now we have reached the level where we are will have to consider it, ”he said on France Inter.

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