There are those who have the right, without necessarily wanting it, and those who are still deprived of it when they only ask for it.
" It is bullshit !
»Thunders Philippe Poncet.
The president of the France BPCO association (for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) would like to be vaccinated against Covid-19 without it being possible for the moment.
Like him, millions of French people would like the lines to move.
According to Inserm, 3.5 million people suffer from the same bronchial disease as Philippe.
Among them, about 700,000 are at risk, including 160,000 under respiratory assistance, according to the association.
But COPD, like diabetes for example, is not one of the priority pathologies to be able to be vaccinated against this infectious disease.
"How to explain that patients among the most at risk can not yet", gets carried away the activist.
Several extensions of the range of authorized persons have already taken place.
As a reminder, initially on December 27, the vaccination campaign was reserved for nursing home residents and vulnerable caregivers who take care of them.
A week later, they were joined by caregivers who were at least 50 years old or had co-morbidities.
Since January 18, those over 75 years of age or people suffering from a serious illness and justifying a vaccination "with very high priority" (the list of which was decided by the Ministry of Health) can in turn access vaccination.
But COPD is not there.
With the arrival on the market of AstraZeneca in addition to Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, healthcare professionals and home helpers can now also be vaccinated.
Obese people waiting
Noémie Heinry, vice-president of France BPCO, is already waiting for her second injection scheduled for Friday because she has "a great doctor who did not accept that we are not in the priority".
But she also pleads for this serious disorder to officially join the list, alongside pulmonary arterial hypertension and certain autoimmune diseases.
“COPD affects the lungs.
Many people who suffer from it wish to be vaccinated, but we still do not have an answer, ”she says.
The association asked the government's “Mister vaccine”, Alain Fischer.
He told them that only people with COPD who are at least 75 years old or who have another organ failure could be vaccinated at the moment, according to the plan defined by the government.
"It is a form of sorting between us and proof that we are clearly not a priority," fulminates Philippe Poncet.
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The more than eight million obese inhabitants must also take their troubles patiently.
However, they present a particularly high-risk profile.
40% of patients admitted to intensive care in a panel of establishments suffered from obesity with a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30, according to the last weekly epidemiological point of Public Health France.
"We pay a very high price when we have no information yet for our vaccination," laments Anne-Sophie Joly, president of the CNAO (National Collective of Obese Associations).
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Again, unless you are at least 75 years old, you will have to wait until AstraZeneca is "open" to non-caregivers.
In medical offices, this will first concern 50-64 year olds suffering from comorbidities from February 25.
But there will not be for everyone at first since "the available volumes will increase very gradually from the month of March, in proportions yet to be specified", indicated the Directorate General of Health in a note. sent to doctors on Friday 12 February.
"I am both too young and too old"
"It is necessary that all obese people who wish to be able to be vaccinated, but that the State does not especially give false hopes", pleads besides Annick Contiero, passed in twelve years from 300 to 90 kg for 1m70.
It is not however for her that this Montpellier asks it since she does not intend to be bitten.
"I trust scientists, but I expect that we have more hindsight," she said, skeptical as a small half of the population according to the polls.
Monday evening, the Schizophrenia Collective also indicated on Twitter that Alain Fisher would now recommend granting priority access to people with schizophrenia.
This is only a note sent for opinion to the High Authority of Health, tempers the entourage of the immunologist.
#EXCLUSIVE Pr Alain Fisher, in charge of the vaccine strategy, has just informed us that the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council recommends in its note of February 15, 2021 priority access for people with #schizophrenia in the next steps 1/2 https://t.co/1VaSfehxIm
- Schizophrenia Collective (@collectifschizo) February 15, 2021
If the government has been forced to define certain priority diseases and not others, it is not out of a desire to “sort out” but above all by constraint due to a lack of vaccines, we plead.
Delays in deliveries from Pfizer, Moderna and then AstraZeneca, announced at the end of January then at the beginning of February, had already led to the postponement, or even the cancellation, of many meetings.
Now, the goal is to have offered at least one dose of vaccine to all vulnerable people who want it by the end of April.
But they will only have access to AstraZeneca at first.
The mRNA vaccines will in fact remain reserved for individuals currently eligible, namely those aged at least 75 years and those on the “very at risk” list.
For these 8 million people, "one can think that they will have been vaccinated (at least with a first dose) by the end of March", indicated Alain Fischer Monday.
Pfizer and Moderna should then benefit the 65-74 year olds for whom AstraZeneca is not recommended.
What mourns Michel, Parisian for twenty years: “I am 73 years old, I am both too young for a vaccine and too old for the other.
How can I do ?
"
