Once the first vaccines against Covid-19 are available in France, priority audiences will be able to be vaccinated "
in the first months of 2021
", estimated on Friday, November 20 an official from the High Authority for Health (HAS), saying "
do not fear a shortage
”.
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“
We expect two or three months for this stage of vaccination of people who are targeted as a priority.
It would therefore be the first months of 2021
”, declared Elisabeth Bouvet, president of the HAS technical committee on vaccinations, during an online press point.
"
We will not have immediate access to doses to vaccinate the entire population, but (...) I think that we will not find ourselves in a problem of shortage
", she added, given the pre-order agreements concluded by the European Union with several laboratories.
This technical committee on vaccinations (CTV) plans to publish “
around November 30
” its final recommendations on the public to be vaccinated as a priority, then, “
probably around mid-December
”, its final opinion on the organization of the vaccination campaign, currently under public consultation.
“
We are not at the point of saying who we will vaccinate in priority, because the work is in progress.
But (...) there is still a consensus to say
"that it will be"
health and medico-social professionals in direct contact with patients and those most at risk of severe form of the disease
", recalled Daniel Floret, vice-president of CTV.
Mathematical modeling studies still in progress, in partnership with the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP), will make it possible to refine the definition of this priority audience: among chronic diseases exposing them to a risk of severe form of Covid, "
which are the most important
", at what exact age to set the threshold for "
elderly
" ...
Regarding the implementation of the vaccination campaign, Pr Bouvet called for general practitioners to be the "
promoters
", drawing lessons from the failure of the H1N1 vaccination in 2009, "
which 'not prevent other workers in the field
"such as nurses and pharmacists" from being
able to vaccinate
as well.
"
After eight to nine months of a fairly hard health crisis, I think that having vaccine prospects - all of this is still a matter of hope - with an efficiency that was not expected makes me rather optimistic
", concluded the specialist in infectious diseases.