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Covid-19: vaccination sites and appointment scheduling, instructions for use

2021-04-10T06:25:55.064Z


Access to vaccines depends on their age and state of health, according to a provisional calendar decreed by the State. Four l-shaped platforms


"Vaccibuses", pharmacies, municipal centers, vaccinodromes, inter-armed hospitals ... There are not a thousand and one kinds, but there are already 338 vaccination centers throughout Ile-de-France and the list of places, where you can get a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, is growing over the weeks.

This allowed the Prime Minister, Jean Castex to announce, on April 9, that 10 million people had already received a first injection of vaccine in France.

Vaccination access, location and vaccine depend on age and state of health.

After residents of nursing homes and health professionals, the general public vaccination campaign ends for people over 75 years old, the National Health Insurance Fund is in charge of calling those who have missed it.

Vaccination is now open to all people aged 70 and over;

to pregnant women from the second trimester of pregnancy;

adults suffering from a very high-risk disease of a severe form of Covid-19 (cancer, transplant patients, etc.);

people over 50 suffering from one or more co-morbid factors (heart failure, diabetes, etc.);

disabled people in the home;

to residents of migrant workers' homes aged 60 and over, as well as to health professionals and the medico-social sector.

At the doctor's, in a pharmacy or in a center

From April 15, vaccination will be available to those 60 and over without any particular pathology.

Then, it will be the turn of the 50 and over, from May 15th.

According to the latest provisional calendar, all adults can be vaccinated from June 15.

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The santé.fr site details all the populations concerned, but also the vaccines to which they are entitled.

Because, the age of the person and the vaccine depend on his place of vaccination as well as his registration.

Vaccination with AstraZeneca, currently accessible only to people over 55 years of age, is performed only at the doctor's office, at his place of care (at home, for example, by a nurse), in the doctor's office. '' an occupational or pharmacy doctor, with whom it is necessary to arrange an appointment.

For Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, you have to go to one of the vaccination centers, with or without a medical prescription depending on your age and pathology.

Appointments are made by phone (on 0800 009 110, seven days a week, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.), via the AntiCovid application on their phone or on one of the online platforms (Doctolib , KelDoc, Maia, Santé.fr) engaged in this unprecedented vaccination campaign in its scale.

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In some centers, especially in Seine-Saint-Denis, residents of the city or the department who may be considered priority according to their profession, are called to lock the last available doses of the day, after registration on waiting lists.

Source: leparis

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