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Is the population of your department more or less vulnerable to Covid?

2020-12-01T20:16:36.382Z


FIG DATA - The High Authority for Health issued its recommendations on November 30. After EHPAD residents, those over 75 and seniors with comorbidity should be targeted for the next vaccination campaign. However, their distribution over the territory is far from uniform.


Aware of the stakes, the government has planned broad.

Six vaccine supply contracts against Covid-19 were to be signed at the end of November, representing more than a billion doses in total according to the Minister for Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

However, all these doses will not reach the market at the same time.

The prioritization of audiences and the definition of a national vaccination strategy, which must be made public this week, are therefore necessary.

In this context, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) issued its recommendations this morning.

It recommends to vaccinate as a first step the residents of the EHPAD as well as the personnel who take care of them.

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These vaccines seem effective in preventing contracting the disease and developing severe forms of it, but we do not know whether they prevent contagion

 " explains Dominique Le Guludec, president of the HAS.

We therefore established the priorities according to the risk of individual vulnerability:

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Source: lefigaro

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