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"Hello Doctor, do you have any doses left?": These French people who are vaccinated without being given priority

2021-03-19T19:16:29.579Z


INVESTIGATION - With a little patience, taking advantage of loopholes in the system or through their connections, they manage to get the vaccine against Covid-19.


"

I played my network, nothing more

".

Gérard *, a 51-year-old Parisian, was not supposed to be able to get vaccinated so early.

At around 4:00 p.m. on March 11, while on his way to school to pick up his children, he received an unexpected phone call from his attending physician:

"Gérard, can you come and get vaccinated in an hour?"

.

Reluctant to be administered a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a priority patient for vaccination had withdrawn at the last minute.

"

With the ambient atmosphere, I suspected that doses might go in the trash and I asked my doctor, a family friend for twenty years, to warn me in case of cancellation,

" he explains. he.

Read also: Vaccines: should the regions most affected by Covid-19 receive more doses?

The case of this Ile-de-France framework is not isolated, according to information collected by

Le Figaro

.

It is not uncommon for people under the age of 75, without comorbidities, to succeed in obtaining the first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, without an official appointment.

And these

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Source: lefigaro

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