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Corona vaccination for medical staff in the Croix Rousse hospital: only a good every second French person wants to be missed a spade
Photo: Jeff Pachoud / dpa
The French vaccination campaign is not just getting off to a particularly slow start - by Wednesday of this week, just under 250,000 people had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
It also meets with more resistance from the population than in other European countries.
In surveys, up to 58 percent of French people said they did not want to be vaccinated.
An astonishing development when you consider how disciplined and obedient the French endured the week-long, strict lockdown last spring.
Only in Serbia are there more.
In other countries, however, the opposite picture emerges: in Denmark 87 percent want to be vaccinated, in Italy 70 percent and in Germany 65 percent of the respondents.
The science historian Laurent-Henri Vignaud has an explanation for this.
SPIEGEL:
How do you explain the mistrust that many French people have in the new vaccine, which everyone has longed for for so long?
Vignaud:
On the one hand, it is a classic reflex that we know from many rich countries, because in these countries in particular, anti-vaccination campaigns are particularly numerous.
I see a certain carelessness in that.
The vaccinations are victims of their own success: diseases seem to have become controllable.
You don't scare people anymore.
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