Of course, she knows that this has no absolute statistical value, but these are signs that never fail.
In her notebook, Dr. Margot Bayart notes every day which are her patients who are willing - or refractory - to receive injections against Covid-19.
“At the start, I had more against than for, then it was balanced half and half.
Today, the proportion of those who wish to be vaccinated is around 60 against 40 ”, decrypts the doctor from Occitanie, vice-president of the general practitioner union MG France.
“It's subjective, but I have the impression that a change is taking place,” she continues.
We also have a lot of calls to the secretariat with the same question: when can I do it?
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In the country of Pasteur, is the population, who were said to be suspicious, in the process of switching in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus?
According to the polls, Dr. Bayart's intuition is correct.
For a week, he has fallen on this theme as in Gravelotte.
Thursday, January 7, Harris Interactive noted an increase of 11 points, with 56% of French people now "for" the administration of doses.
For Ifop, it was 10 points more (from 41 to 51%) between the end of November and the beginning of January.
The next polling data, imminent, will be even more convincing.
Same observation this Wednesday, January 13 at the Elabe Institute, with a progression of 9 points, visible in particular among the over 65s, then among the fifties, and executives.
“Be careful, we know the volatility of polls on vaccination issues, tempers Henri Bergeron, sociologist specializing in health policies.
But if this trend continued in the next few weeks, it would be fairly new for a topic that started with controversy to end with strong support.
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Fed up with curfews
What is it that tilts the scales today?
“People want to get back to a normal life, a life of freedom.
They are fed up with curfews and restrictions, ”says Margot Bayart.
Especially since the end of the tunnel is not there.
After a Defense Council held by Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, Prime Minister Jean Castex could announce this Thursday evening a generalization of the extinction of fires at 6 p.m., throughout the territory, against 25 departments today.
Could also be on the menu of the traditional press conference, a lowered gauge in shops and a strengthening of the health protocol in school canteens.
If a new large and generalized confinement in France is not - currently - envisaged by the executive, the hypothesis of local reconfinements is indeed on the table.
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But what really changed the situation for the vice-president of MG France was the English variant.
“It has finished convincing the undecided and, in particular, the youngest.
For them, the virus was a thing of the elderly.
Today, they fear the arrival of the variant, which is more contagious, including for children.
The phrase I often hear is
Doctor, do we have any other choice?
», Deciphers the one of which patients ask a lot the opinion.
The absence of an incident reassures
Could the delay in the ignition of France, which despite its 247,000 vaccinated, immunizes much less than its neighbors, could it generate in the public opinion a "lack of effect"?
“Maybe there is a small syndrome,
there is none, so I want some
, points out Henri Bergeron.
But what pleads is above all the absence of accidents linked to vaccination.
Seeing that everything is going well in England, the United States, Israel after millions of vaccinations can only reassure, ”analyzes the sociologist.
Another key point, in a few weeks, the word was reversed, much more oriented on the ardent defenders of injections than on those who doubt it.
"That doctors known as Axel Khan express themselves widely to help play down vaccination," said Bergeron.
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But conversely, we should not focus too much on this comeback, which could also be a sham.
“For now, it is more of a variation than a radical change, estimates the researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), vaccination specialist, Jeremy Ward.
45% remain reluctant, that's a lot and more than elsewhere!
We must not forget them and find a way to talk to them.
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