Its task promises to be as arduous as it is intense.
The pediatrician and immunologist Alain Fischer was officially inducted into the government's “Monsieur vaccine” this Thursday afternoon, during a conference devoted to the French vaccine strategy against Covid-19.
More specifically, he has been appointed to head a brand new "advice for the vaccination strategy, responsible for supporting the government in the choices it will be led to make in this area," said Jean. Castex.
This campaign “will be the government's number one priority in the coming weeks,” added the Prime Minister.
This doctor and researcher, commander of the Legion of Honor, enjoys a solid reputation in the scientific community.
Former member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee between 2005 and 2009, he was also awarded the Grand Prix for Medical Research from Inserm in 2008.
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Its task will be to coordinate the large number of players concerned by the vaccination strategy (government, administrations, doctors, health professionals, etc.).
Supply, logistics, injections… All these tasks require both strong anticipation and significant logistics.
The committee he will chair will be made up of "scientific experts, including human and social sciences, health professionals, representatives of local communities, patient associations, citizens themselves", the head of government developed.
Alain Fischer's role can be compared, on the vaccines side, to that endorsed last spring by a certain Jean Castex, who then became the “deconfinement gentleman” of the previous government.
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This episode of the designation of a French "Monsieur vaccine" had given rise to a sort of first quack in recent days.
In November, several media had argued that the senior official Louis-Charles Viossat, passed through several ministerial cabinets, had been chosen by the executive.
What this one had never neither confirmed… nor denied.
"He is only one cog among others", had finally minimized this Wednesday to the World Elysee, perhaps fearing that his professional passages in two pharmaceutical laboratories do not reflect.
The insubordinate France deputy François Ruffin had already given him the nickname "little soldier of Big Pharma".
