He already regretted the softness of the vaccination campaign on Monday.
Professor Éric Caumes put a layer back this morning on BFMTV / RMC.
"It is absolutely necessary that people at risk make their third injection", he insisted.
As a reminder, people eligible for this 3rd dose are the over 65s and those with co-morbidities.
Only half of them would have received it.
A figure which pushed the head of the infectious diseases department of La Pitié to reassure the French: "The level of risk does not increase according to the number of doses injected", he assured in particular.
Éric Caumes: "It is absolutely necessary that people at risk make a third injection" of the vaccine against Covid-19 pic.twitter.com/lkjYzIEaSR
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) November 3, 2021
“We cannot stop this virus, the zero Covid strategy is impossible and it is very unlikely that we will find a miracle treatment against this virus,” he continued.
“We decided to let it flow, which makes perfect sense.
According to the specialist, only vaccination will allow us to overcome the epidemic.
“We will get out of it by collective immunity (via vaccination).
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To argue, Eric Caumes then took the example of the circulation of the virus on the territory.
"It is in the west of France that the virus now circulates the most, because collective immunity has not yet been acquired in these departments which had hitherto been relatively untouched.
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"Double the wages of nurses"
He also mentioned the vaccination of children.
“We do not have enough perspective on the vaccination of young children.
It's not a priority, ”he said.
“The children are all immune or in the process of being so and they don't have serious forms anyway.
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Finally, Eric Caumes took advantage of this interview to send a message to the government and alert on the working conditions in hospitals.
“Everyone mobilized during the Covid and we forgot the worries of the hospital,” he said, calling for “doubling the salaries of nurses” to stop the serial departures of exhausted caregivers.
According to a survey carried out by Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific Council and of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), published on October 27, nearly one in five available beds is currently closed in French public hospitals due to the lack of caregivers.
