A vaccine before 2021 was the end-of-year “gift” for the residents of the Mon repos retirement home in Sartrouville.
Fourteen of the 36 elderly people of this Yvelines establishment, pilot of the vaccination campaign, are among the few French people vaccinated before the New Year. They received their first dose of the Pzifer / BioNTech vaccine on New Year's Eve.
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"There is no therapy, so the vaccine is the only way to bring down the cases,"
comments Jean, 90, stoic before the injection.
“The older I get, the less afraid I am.
When I was young, illnesses worried me much more.
And then there were other dangers, like the Indochina War.
Dying at 20 is more annoying, ”he puts into
perspective.
“See you in 21 days for the second dose,”
the nurse reminds her after the injection.
Madeleine, 94, also received the injection
"without apprehension"
.
“I don't even understand this fuss.
People wanted a vaccine at all costs and now they are reluctant.
Here is
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