"Total transparency"
,
"absolute vigilance"
and
"unwavering determination"
.
The executive has chosen a ternary pace to reassure the French as the first vaccinations against Covid-19 approach, which could begin as early as the last week of December in France.
By presenting his vaccine strategy during a debate without a vote and without a shout of voice in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Prime Minister sought the confidence of public opinion more than that of deputies.
In the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon, Jean Castex called on everyone to be
"both cautious, patient, but confident" in
front of the arrival of this
"additional weapon"
, a
"reason for hope
in the face of the epidemic.
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"Confidence cannot be decreed, it is won, it is sometimes lost, but above all it is earned"
, conceded the Prime Minister, aware of facing a wall of distrust in the country.
A majority of French people (59%) said at the end of November that they would not, or probably not, get vaccinated against Covid-19 when they can, according to an Ifop poll.
A level of skepticism among the highest in the world, noted by Jean Castex:
"the French people (...) have never been a big fanatic of vaccination."
"To reassure"
"Faced with fear"
,
"doubt"
and
"suspicion"
, the head of government therefore promised deputies to
"explain"
,
"reassure"
and
"accompany"
the population.
Through a vaccination campaign based on
"consent"
, supported by the State and deployed in three phases, he detailed: around one million seniors in nursing homes at the end of the month
"if the conditions are gathered ”
, then 14 million people at risk, then the non-priority population
“ at the end of spring ”
.
In front of the Prime Minister and his Minister of Health, the oppositions underlined both the
“hopes”
and the
“concerns”
raised by the arrival of vaccines.
"Everything went very quickly"
and
"we can be happy about it"
, but
"the data at our disposal are still very partial"
, qualified the rebellious Adrien Quatennens, calling for more transparency
"health"
and
" economic ”
, in particular on
“ intellectual property and liability regimes ”
.
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Vaccines should be declared a “global public good,” insisted the Communists and the rebels.
Socialist parliamentarians and Republicans have for their part deplored the delay of France in the race for vaccines.
Urgently, the elected (The Republicans) Jean-Pierre Door even called for
“stepping over the
red tape
”
of the
“state bureaucracy”
, by immediately authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, without waiting for the decision of the European Agency of the drug, scheduled for December 21.
Anxious to honor the
promised
"transparency"
, the executive prefers to rely on this verdict and rely on the maquis of bodies associated with decisions - Vaccine strategy orientation council, scientific committee, citizens' committee, committee of health professionals and committee of elected officials.
Hence the rare satisfaction of the Communist André Chassaigne, who praised a
“more concerted”
vaccine strategy
, after the
“fiasco”
of masks and tests.