At each speech by the executive, appointments to be vaccinated jump. With the prospect of the implementation of a vaccination pass, which the government hopes will be adopted by the end of January, more refractories have decided to take the plunge. Saturday, December 18, they were 15,330 to reserve a slot on Doctolib, or 8,483 more than a week before. Among them, 14,609 agreed to communicate their age to the platform; and those over 60 accounted for only 7.6% of the total. An encouraging figure but to put into perspective with the more than 250,000 appointments blocked for the booster dose that same day ...
In practice, 34,944 first injections were carried out on the day of December 18, up 15% compared to December 11, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Solidarity.
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There is always a long way to go to convince the recalcitrant.
90.9% of eligible French people (over 12 years old, the Haute Autorité de Santé has not yet authorized vaccination for all 5-11 years) received at least one dose of serum on December 16.
This therefore means that 9.1% of them have no vaccination coverage, a fraction of the population sufficient to saturate hospitals.
As of December 19, 2,936 people were in intensive care, a level equivalent to January 2020.
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From now on, only the vaccination will be valid in the past [...] We assume to put the constraint on the unvaccinated because the critical care services are filled for the most part with unvaccinated people
”, declared the Prime Minister Jean Castex Friday evening.
