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Covid-19: "If my doctor tells me to get vaccinated, I do it"

2021-01-14T07:52:54.071Z


The start of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign and the first returns are starting to erode the mistrust of some of the French


Antoine, 37, still does not understand "how we could find a vaccine in a year when we still do not have one for malaria and Ebola" and it is not hot at all to be vaccinated against the Covid-19.

"I like my doctor, so if he tells me to get the vaccine, I will, but it will take a long discussion first!"

», Specifies this inhabitant of Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), who came to consult Dr. Jean-Marc Aydin, this Wednesday, January 13, for a knee problem.

"Okay, but in this case you will have to come back with the galette des rois", laughs the general practitioner, pointing to the greasy stains that smear the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of his patient.

"What if I told you I'm vaccinated?"

», Engages the doctor, who received a dose at the end of the bottle which was going to be thrown at the end of the day on one of the vaccination centers where he intervenes.

Without managing to tear his interlocutor definitively from his skepticism.

"I need to be reassured"

In this medical center in this popular city of Seine-Saint-Denis, ten practitioners practice and see the local population's view of the vaccine evolve.

"We play an advisory role, some even ask us for our opinion on changing cars," smiles the thirty-year-old general practitioner, who is also the head of the Permanence of care 93, which brings together 300 doctors from the department.

I am asked the question all the time.

The population had reservations after questions related to drugs, masks ... The more people go to see people vaccinated, the more they will do it themselves.

"

A phenomenon confirmed by Chhay Hen and Ngek, a couple installed in the waiting room.

"My wife is more for getting vaccinated, I am not," explains Monsieur, 63 years old.

At the moment, I am in good health, so that doesn't necessarily seem necessary.

I intend to seek advice from my doctor.

If he tells me to get the vaccine, I do.

But I need to be reassured.

"

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This is not the case for two other retirees who consult Dr. Aydin.

“Since I was little, we have been doing our vaccines,” explains Jean Burlandy, 69, having his shoulder obliterated for his tetanus booster.

When they call me, I'll go.

There is nothing to make a fuss about it.

"

"I don't want to die from Covid"

Bernard also waits for the injection without blinking.

"I wanted to ask you for information, because I am over 75 years old and I am eligible, but we have no telephone number or indication of the place to be vaccinated, launches this retiree on the eve of the date. official launching of appointments.

We see a lot of reports, but concretely, how do we do it?

"His choice has been stopped for a long time:" We must try to stop this epidemic and I do not want to die from Covid.

I prefer to return to a normal life.

To tell the truth, the vague conspiracy and the refusal of the vaccine worry me a little.

"

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Without going into these theories, Rozina admits to being "afraid of side effects", while consulting for the fever of Shazain, the youngest of her four children: "If I have more information, I might change my mind. , but I wait until I have a little more perspective.

"

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Same reluctance on the part of Albertine Ngah, 26, who is consulting Jean-Marc Aydin for the first time.

The young woman works in an Ehpad (accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people) and undergoes a PCR test every ten days but she allows herself "a year or two years to reflect, see how things will evolve and [be] done [ his] own take on a brand new virus and vaccine that no one knows about.

“His priority at the moment is for other injections, mandatory for his next trip to Cameroon.

Source: leparis

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