Vaccination pioneers will be able to start receiving their booster in a month.
At the end of a new Health Defense Council, the executive specified this Wednesday, August 11 the terms of this stage of the strategy for containing the Covid-19 epidemic, as explained by Gabriel Attal after this meeting held by videoconference.
“We are going to launch the vaccination booster for people at risk.
The appointments will open at the end of August or the beginning of September, for a campaign which will begin in mid-September ", declared the spokesperson of the government, specifying that the High Authority of Health (HAS) will be in charge" to establish the list of the populations concerned ”.
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In July, the body was cautious about the interest of a third dose for people who have been doubly vaccinated or of a second for those who have already contracted Covid-19 before.
The High Authority for Health considered "very likely" that a booster injection actually provides a "boost" effect.
It "
(also) took
note of the opinions of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, of the Scientific Council and of the announcement by the President of the Republic on July 12, 2021 of the establishment of a vaccine booster campaign" , without commenting on its merits.
HAS awaits the results of additional studies
The HAS also argued that there was "no argument to recommend the administration of a booster dose beyond those targeted by government announcements." For a definitive position, the authority was awaiting additional studies, the full results of which are still not available. Contacted, the body remains on the same line and specifies that it "will decide as soon as the data is available, probably in the coming weeks".
Alain Fischer, chairman of the Vaccine Strategy Orientation Council, gave his point of view on the question of the public concerned, citing on France Info “people over 80 years old, in particular those who live in nursing homes, those who were the very first vaccinated at the end of December and beginning of January, as well as the immunocompromised people ”.
A target that would be smaller than in Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel, where campaigns are also in preparation or already started.
The leaders of the laboratories, they are campaigning for a third generalized dose.
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These campaigns respond to studies showing a decrease in the level of antibodies six months after the second injection faster in older people. Elements that the HAS had asked to support in real life. It is now up to her to place the cursor to determine the extent of the public that will be concerned.