Some were waiting for it with great impatience: the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is now available to all French people from Saturday, November 27, announced this Thursday Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, the day after a Defense Council chaired by the Head of State Emmanuel Macron on the responses to the "dazzling" epidemic resumption.
In addition, the minimum period to be observed since the previous injection has been reduced from 6 to 5 months.
The executive made little of it a mystery: the question of the generalization of the booster dose was among the main topics on the agenda, alongside telework and the wearing of masks in a larger proportion.
"I would not be surprised that we are gradually moving towards vaccine booster shots for all adults who have been vaccinated, that's the meaning of the story", also confided Emmanuel Macron to the Parisian last week.
Recommended by HAS
This generalization goes in the direction of the High Authority of Health (HAS), which recommended this Thursday morning "in a context of resumption of the epidemic even stronger than expected", to extend the booster vaccination to all adults, by shortening the time since the last injection to 5 months.
This could allow the peak of this “fifth wave” to be reduced by 50%.
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The next few days should see new vaccinodromes bloom in France.
A thousand are currently open "and we will reopen some" indicated Tuesday the Ministry of Health in Paris.
On Wednesday, the Doctolib platform recorded a new record of appointments for the booster dose, with 360,000 people registered in a single day.
This expansion of the vaccine booster should logically explode the counters, nearly 15 million French people finding themselves eligible overnight.