Three weeks after the launch of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, the organization remains a headache for municipalities.
On Monday, the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency asked the centers that opened on January 18 to postpone by one week the appointments for the second dose initially scheduled for the week of February 8.
In Courbevoie, we are worried about whether the number of doses allocated will be sufficient to honor all the appointments, as the ARS assures.
“We have a very limited number of vaccines.
With this number of vaccines, we will only be able to perform second injections for a certain number of weeks, and therefore we must refuse access to patients for the first injections for a certain period ”, explains Caroline Paolino, director of prevention. and health promotion, and in charge of the organization of the Courbevoie vaccination center.
"If we vaccinate for the first time, will we have the doses for the second vaccination tomorrow?"
“Asks Jacques Kossowski, the mayor (LR) of Courbevoie.
“We were supposed to have 420 vaccines, we received 186. How do you want us to continue working?
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For its part, the ARS writes that “the week of February 15 will ensure 66,000 second injections and around 10,000 first injections.
in outpatient centers ”.
If the seniors wonder about the availability of the second dose, they remain mostly confident.
“I asked the question, admits Viviane, who came to receive her first injection this Thursday.
I was told that in the event of a lack of dose, we favored the second vaccination, rather than the first ”.
