Yvette rolls down the right sleeve of her shirt, her eyes satisfied.
" That's a good thing done.
"" Next punishment in 28 days, dear Madam ", replies Audrey, liberal nurse responsible for administering her first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, one of the three new vaccination centers in Yvelines (with Vélizy and Chatou).
Aged 90, Yvette, resident of the Chennevières district, in Conflans, had been stamping for many weeks not being able to benefit from this sting.
“I am not transported and my children are far from home, specifies the person concerned, coming to the village hall transformed into a vaccination center aboard the city shuttle.
I waited patiently for my turn, but it is especially my little ones who are going to be happy… ”
"I will be able to hug my 10 great grandchildren"
The grandma, who suffers from diabetes and underwent thyroid surgery at age 74, has four children, eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
The day before, Ophélie, her 42-year-old granddaughter, had even phoned her to give her courage at the time of this moment of history in this nonagenarian.
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On the last Christmas Eve, celebrated in the Loiret with one of his two sons, the youngest had bombarded him with questions.
"Grandma, why can't we hug you?"
"Because I am old and I must protect myself from Covid-19", smiled the nonagenarian, now freed from a weight.
“We had fun all day nudging each other,” she continues, referring to these family celebrations that have become impossible.
Today, I will finally be able to hug my 10 great-grandchildren… ”
400 doses of Moderna for the week
When she left the box, she ran into Jeanne, 85, her former neighbor.
The relief was the same on the faces of the newly vaccinated Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
The intercommunal center, "ready in advance
(Editor's note: since January)
to be reactive when the prefecture gives us the green light" according to the mayor (LR) Laurent Brosse, has 400 doses of Moderna for the week.
Initially, the vaccination concerns those over 75, over 50 with co-morbidities as well as people with pathologies at very high risk of severe disease.
The city's Retirees Area has done a lot of work upstream by calling the seniors listed and identifying priority audiences and the system, with 100 volunteers, is able to accommodate the inhabitants of Achères, Andrésy, Chanteloup-les -Vignes, Maurecourt and Conflans, of course, until December.
On the waiting list in Cergy and Poissy
Marcel won't wait that long.
The one who opened Maurecourt's main pharmacy in 1952 came out with his first dose.
After weeks of waiting ...
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"It is a long time since we should have closed everything to vaccinate the population, breaths in a tired voice the 96-year-old man.
When I saw that planes were allowed to bring people back from all over the world, I was shocked.
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Since the beginning of January and the first vaccinations on French soil, Marcel had been waiting his turn.
On the waiting list in Cergy-Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) then in Poissy, whose center called "Chez Mauricette" (named after the first vaccinated in France) opened on January 7, it landed on Tuesday morning with a lighter heart.