The scarcity of a vital resource imposes Cornelian tradeoffs, but these are the nobility of politics.
We know the priorities adopted today for vaccination against Covid-19: residents of nursing homes, people aged 75 or over, people with pathologies that make them particularly vulnerable to the virus, nursing staff aged 50 or over or them - the same risk carriers.
These priorities are understood from a compassionate perspective (the most fragile first), but are they the right ones from the point of view of the general interest (reduce the spread of the virus as quickly as possible)?
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During the first and probably the second week of February, it will no longer be possible to perform, in health establishments in regions under pressure (particularly in Île-de-France), only second injections.
The first injections will be suspended for health professionals.
However, on January 23, barely 20% of AP-HP professionals, for example,
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