On the tails, there is the good news. A record delivery of doses of Covid-19 vaccine in June. Peaks at 750,000 injections per day. A campaign that brings down the number of people entering intensive care. And stars like Kylian Mbappé posting photos of them at the clinic, bandages on their arms. "Thank you for the vaccine, no it was great, the image on the networks", thanked him this Thursday Emmanuel Macron, during an exchange in Clairefontaine (Yvelines). But on the other hand, there is also a concern that is beginning to emerge: that of a slowdown in vaccination, similar to the slack that the United States experienced before us.
“Between the end of June and the beginning of July, there will undoubtedly be doses which will not find takers, fears a government source. After the start of the school holidays, it will be worse. "And to let go:" We are still in the soft layers, we will enter the hard layers. »Those which concentrate the most reluctant to be stung. Hence the alert launched by Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital. "It is obvious that there is, in all vaccine efforts, a glass ceiling effect," he said on BFMTV. You can no longer recruit. The people who wanted to be vaccinated were vaccinated and the others, we have to go get them. "
To "seek" them, a new commercial has been broadcast on television for a few days. At the Ministry of Sports, we are also preparing a video of athletes qualified for the Tokyo Olympics to promote vaccination. The government is firing on all cylinders. He relaxed the rules for vaccination at vacation spots. He's also thinking about getting messages across during a special moment: the 15 minutes after the first dose of vaccine is injected. At that time, the vaccinated must wait seated, this is the rule. A captive audience to which we can remind ourselves of the need to schedule the second injection without delay. "Some people feel invincible from the day of their first vaccine," says the Ministry of Health.
The communicators of power would like to launch a movement "I change my profile picture" on trendy applications.
They contacted platforms and "influencers".
Aim: to make vaccination a trend among young people.
“Today, young people want to be vaccinated to travel this summer, but tomorrow?
Will they still be motivated if they feel the epidemic is behind them?
Asks an adviser to the executive.
Make the dose mandatory?
Finally, the National Health Insurance Fund tries to encourage the populations most distant from healthcare systems to take the plunge, by appealing to them.
A long term job.
"But outright antivax, them, we will never be able to convince them," sighs a director of administration.
A major handicap in achieving overall immunity, which scientists estimate to be around 80% of vaccinated - only 27.5% of adults are currently fully vaccinated.
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So how do you get around the difficulty? "We will not be able to do without an obligatory vaccination," said Professor Pialoux. We are 50% of vaccinated medical staff, says the doctor. This is not normal. There are also very exposed professions and I think that we will need a vaccination obligation, perhaps also to fill up the over 70s because there too, we are in a glass ceiling effect. "
For a long time, Emmanuel Macron was opposed to this track. “For the French, when something is mandatory, it deploys antibodies, he recalled, in Martel (Lot). People when we give them freedom, we convince them. If we tell them it's
mandatory
, they'll say
wow, what's he doing to us?
But that could change. In government, the line is now: “We don't forbid ourselves anything. This would not be the first change of foot in the fight against the epidemic.
