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Vaccination passport: the surprising adhesion of the French

2021-01-16T17:58:49.516Z


Against all expectations, the French are rather in favor of the vaccine passport, that is to say the obligation to have been immunized to achieve


Reputed to be suspicious and even resistant to vaccines, are the Gauls gradually getting used to the idea of ​​being bitten to end the Covid-19?

According to an Ifop survey for the company Lemon, carried out in partnership with Le Parisien

(Editor's note: carried out by self-administered questionnaire online from January 11 to 12, 2021 with a sample of 1028 people, representative of the population aged 18 years and over living in mainland France)

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54% of French people, fifteen points more than in December, want to be vaccinated.

Director of studies at the opinion center of the polling institute, Jean-Philippe Dubrulle analyzes it as a form of "vaccine relaxation initiated after a first period of expectation during which the first injections have shown their safety and the implementation of the vaccination campaign raised fears of a lack of doses ”.

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Even if pockets of "vaccinosceptics" remain, Ifop notes that the idea of ​​imposing a vaccination passport to access certain places is also gaining ground.

62% of French people are therefore in favor of compulsory vaccination for people wishing to take the plane to go abroad.

60% are so that only people vaccinated against Covid-19 are allowed to visit vulnerable people in retirement homes or in hospitals.

But France remains cut in two when it comes to imposing this measure on students and staff of colleges and high schools, spectators of cinemas and theaters as well as employees.

In December in the National Assembly, the UDI deputy from the North defended on behalf of her group the idea of ​​a "green passport" on the model that Israel wants to put in place.

Objective: to allow "vaccinated people to access cultural places or restaurants" and therefore, ultimately, "to find a normal life".

For her part, the president of the European Commission said on Friday she was in favor of the Greek Prime Minister's initiative to establish a "mutually recognized certificate" at the EU level.

Not easy to implement as the reluctance remains numerous.

WHO has clearly spoken out against it.

"Vaccination certificates for travel have no reason to exist," said the director of health emergency issues at WHO Michael Ryan.

Because we lack crucial evidence as to whether vaccinated people can continue to be infected or transmit the disease ”and because“ vaccines are still only available in limited quantities ”.

"The benefit-risk balance completely shifts to the side of vaccination"

Cofounder of the Observatory of transparency in drug policies, Jérôme Martin sees it as a “coercive measure” which could encourage some to “produce false certificates”.

“Let's imagine that these passports become widespread,” he continues.

People like me in their 40s and without comorbidities will not be prioritized for vaccines, so I would have to wait months for this document.

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Last week, the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, had carefully put the subject on the table, believing that we could "think about the establishment of such a passport for certain very specific uses which make it possible to relaunch activities such as participation in trade shows that bring together people from all countries and for trips abroad ”.

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For the sociologist and researcher from Lille Caroline de Pauw, introducing this "coercive measure" would in a way lead to imposing on people who do not wish to be vaccinated if they want to regain some of their freedoms.

“Now, we can clearly see that the population and even doctors are much more convinced than at the outset of the value of vaccines.

The risk-benefit balance is now completely tilted towards vaccination and people tend to rush over it.

"Friday, while the government announced the opening of vaccination on Monday to French over 75 years and vulnerable people at very high risk, more than a million appointments were made to be bitten.

Source: leparis

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