A figure comes up regularly in the mouth of the government: 1 million.
This is the number of French women and men who have received a first dose of vaccine since the announcement of the deployment of the vaccine pass to replace the health pass, by Jean Castex, on Friday December 17.
About 200,000 of these first-timers are children between the ages of 5 and 11, who had just been eligible.
But for adults, has the vaccine pass – which came into effect on Monday – really led to a craze for getting vaccinated?
We have chosen to look, for each age group, at the proportion of non-vaccinated people who have chosen to receive a first dose in recent weeks.
An effect especially in young people
It appears that the vaccination pass mainly had an effect on young people aged 18 to 29.
Less than 1% of those not vaccinated received a first dose every day throughout last fall, and this share climbed from mid-December.
At the beginning of January, it reached almost 2%.
On the other hand, the impact of this announcement appears to be almost zero among people aged 60 and over.
And yet, it is not among young people that the "pool" of non-vaccinated was the highest.
On December 17, taking into account the vaccination data provided by Public Health France and the populations estimated on January 1, 2021 by INSEE, only 6.3% of 20-29 year olds, nearly 10% of 30-49 year olds and more than 7% of 50-69 year olds had not yet received any vaccine dose.
Figures to be interpreted with caution, however, given that it is impossible to know in real time with precision, for each age group, the number of inhabitants in France.
Surge in contamination
It is not necessarily surprising that those under 30 were the most encouraged to receive an injection, after the announcement of the vaccination pass.
Unless they have a certificate of recovery after testing positive for the past six months, the unvaccinated are now denied access to restaurants, bars, cinemas, stadiums, etc.
So many places very popular with young adults.
“It is a constraint not to be able to go to the restaurant, to the bar, to the museum, to the theater, to the cinema because one is not vaccinated”, justified the spokesman of the government Gabriel Attal on January 9, then that Emmanuel Macron had just assumed with the Parisian his "desire to annoy" the non-vaccinated.
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While there are still around 4.5 million unvaccinated people in France, the rate of first injections has slowed sharply in recent days.
This is explained, in part, by the outbreak of contaminations with the Omicron variant since the end of December.
More than 360,000 people test positive every day on average, and those who have not been vaccinated among them must wait at least two months to receive a possible first dose.
