Objective achieved for the government.
More than 10 million French people have now received a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, Olivier Véran announced on Saturday evening.
Six days earlier, the Minister of Health had said he wanted to reach this threshold by the end of the week.
Since Saturday, November 27, all adult residents are called to receive an additional injection, at least 5 months after the second dose.
The latest data available in open data goes until Thursday, December 2 (they always have one day difference and they are not updated on weekends).
By this date, 9.3 million French people had received a booster dose, or 15% of the entire adult population and 39% of that already eligible.
6.3 million of them are at least 65 years old, that is to say the priority target until the end of November.
In this bracket, 40% of residents and 61% of those already eligible received an additional dose (most often this is a third dose).
With the opening of the campaign to the entire adult population, the proportion of elderly people among all those who received a booster dose has logically decreased in recent days.
In one week, it went from 80% to 68%.
Health pass deactivated after seven months
Not only does the booster dose provide very important protection (it cuts the hospitalization rate in the elderly by four compared to those who only received two doses at least six months ago), but it will also be soon essential to keep your health pass.
The ax will fall on December 15 for those over 65, and January 15 for all others.
A period of two months is tolerated, from the moment one becomes eligible for vaccination.
That is, the pass will be disabled for anyone who has not received a booster dose 7 months after the previous one.
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As of December 15, 6.4 million people aged 65 and over had been vaccinated 7 months earlier.
There are therefore less than 100,000 remaining who risk losing their health pass that day.
As of January 15, a total of 16.8 million French people could be without sesame.
Almost 7 million therefore still have six weeks to be “bitten”.
Note that on Doctolib, the vast majority of people who have made an appointment for a booster injection in recent days are under the age of 65.
Place of residence versus place of vaccination
According to the latest data available, the departments whose adult inhabitants have most often received a booster dose are Corse-du-Sud, Nièvre and Hautes-Pyrénées (nearly 20% each time).
At the other end of the ranking are several departments of Île-de-France.
However, beware of a bias: these data relate to the number of vaccinated in a department in relation to the population.
Public Health France is in the process of changing the repository, in order to use very soon the numbers of vaccinated according to their department of residence, and not the one where the injection was performed.
This will provide more reliable vaccine coverage.
