She leaves the Olympe-de-Gouges vaccination center in Paris XI, all smiles.
" It went very well !
»Loose Jeanne, Parisian 99 years old and very young vaccinated.
She traveled from her 16th arrondissement in the arms of her daughter Hélène and Manal, her “guardian angel”.
“It took me two months to get this meeting,” explains Hélène.
It was a horror, I could not find anything, and Sunday, it unblocked.
“Because in Ile-de-France, vaccination slots have finally become available this week.
Monday evening, on Sante.fr, the blue was obvious.
This is the color of the available time slots: 150 slots in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 29 in Chelles (Seine-et-Marne), more than 200 in this Parisian vaccination center.
An offer greater than forecast
The reason is firstly the supply of vaccines greater than what was expected in March.
"Over the month as a whole, we were to have an endowment of 300,000 doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and we will have finally had 800,000 doses
(570,000 first injections and 220,000 boosters, Editor's note)
", Aurélien Rousseau recently told us, the boss of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Ile-de-France.
A million doses are expected in April, and twice as many in May.
However, and to everyone's surprise, these new niches were not all taken by storm, as at the start of the vaccination campaign.
It must be said that the chaotic sequence of deliveries, the suspension of Astra Zeneca and the absence of a vaccina schedule, do not facilitate anticipation.
Appointments are often displayed from week to week.
"We are sure that priority audiences have not been vaccinated," worries Luc Ginot, doctor and director of public health at ARS Ile-de-France, which mobilizes all stakeholders in the field, up to associations, at the foot of the stairs.
Last week, according to Public Health France, 46.6% of Ile-de-France residents over the age of 75 (400,139 people) had received a first injection (22% had a booster).
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“I hesitated for a long time,” says Colette, an 82-year-old Parisian, who took the plunge this Tuesday.
She had the good idea to make up her mind when the time slots became available.
But not everyone is as agile as she is on the Internet, or does not have, like Jeanne, a child to track down availability day and night on Doctolib.
Go to those who do not have the means to get an appointment
Everywhere in Ile-de-France, initiatives are multiplying to reach those who do not have the means to get an appointment, in the cities as in the countryside.
Almost 10,000 doses are reserved for them each week.
Vaccibus in Seine-Saint-Denis or in Yvelines, partnership of home helpers in Paris, interventions in the homes of migrant workers make it possible to target the excluded.
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It is then up to them to decide whether or not they want to be vaccinated.
In Bobigny, the CPAM has been calling for three weeks the beneficiaries of complementary health insurance (CSS) (former universal health cover, CMU), those who do not have an attending physician or who have not had reimbursement for care since more than six months.
A three-page letter was sent Monday to 96,000 copies to all residents over 75 years identified in Seine-Saint-Denis, to remind how to access vaccination, with phone numbers.
And remember that the vaccine is free for everyone.
This letter was sent to all, vaccinated or not, since to date, we can know how many people, by age group and profile, have been vaccinated, but not where they live, protection of privacy requires.
"There are lots of people waiting, over 75 or less, with multiple pathologies," confirms the Paris federation of the National Union of Retirees (Unrpa), which operates in priority neighborhoods.
In just a day and a half, the Parisian federation listed twenty volunteers among its members.
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The waiting list is also growing day by day at the pharmacy of Bruno Maleine, in Villiers-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), president of the regional council of pharmacists.
He expects to receive doses of Astra Zeneca within a week, "10 or 20 at best."
Not enough to satisfy the hundred or so patients, including some "suffering from co-morbidities".
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The supply of new niches is not enough to satisfy everyone.
This Tuesday, Jocelyne left very angry from the 11th century health center.
She had come from Val-de-Marne and as no domiciliation condition is required, she hoped to benefit from a first injection.
"I had made an appointment through the Stop Covid platform but that was not taken into account," plague this 66-year-old retiree who completes her end of the month with activities in supermarkets.
With her “type 2 diabetes, two phlebitis, hepatitis and the doctor's prescription,” she is sure to be eligible even if she is under 70 years old.
Provided still to find an appointment.
The only one she found before was in Reims.
"They tell me about the waiting list, and new vaccines in ten days, but I need to work," she blows.
"I was told that I was not a priority, although I have health problems"
Florence, a 60-year-old teacher, despairs of getting vaccinated./LP/CS
"If the teachers are vaccinated in April with Astra Zeneca and it takes nine weeks between the two injections, that means that we find ourselves fully vaccinated at the time of the summer vacation?
“Asks Florence, still a history professor at 60, as evidenced by her professional card.
It was she who apostrophed us, with tears in her eyes, this Tuesday morning, at the gates of the vaccination center housed in the Olympe-de-Gouges room, in Paris XI.
"I saw yesterday on Sante.fr that there were slots available and I tried to make an appointment as I have been doing for two months, but as I am not 75 years old, it made me feel indicated I was low on priority despite having health issues, a poorly functioning kidney, high blood pressure and a doctor's prescription.
"
A person in charge of the vaccination center took the time to listen to him at the entrance on Tuesday.
"She took my number and they may call me back in April," sighs Florence, looking defeated.
“I don't know what to do anymore, I want to go back to work, but I can't go back to school without a vaccine.
And if I prolong my stoppage I risk being halfway through treatment.
We need to vaccinate teachers quickly!
»She blurted out.
The distance with the students?
“I complained at the end of each class, the distance is a test too.
She didn't have a computer before the Covid.
So organizing videoconferencing courses, with sound and image, was not easy.
Going back to work ?
Without a vaccine, she is too scared.
“I buried a friend in December, swept away by the Covid,” she explains.
"If this continues I will crack, I will unscrew," she repeats before going home.
A few hours later, she sent us a hopeful SMS: “I didn't play the lotto but I just won… a vaccination at the Olympe-de-Gouges center for March 25!
Phew!
What a relief !
"
