The Parisian wrote this Tuesday morning: conditioning the health pass to the injection of a booster dose for only those over 65 is one of the measures that Emmanuel Macron could announce this evening.
Has the decision already been taken?
This is what some people think they have guessed by discovering, in one of the files used by the TousAntiCovid and TousAntiCovidVérif applications, that the lines “vaccineBoosterAge: 65” and “vaccineBoosterDelayMax: 213” had been added twelve days ago.
The # Macron20h announcements are already written in the new version of TousAntiCovid verifies on Github.
If you are over 65 years old mandatory booster and maximum duration of the booster equal to 213 days.
I hope I did not disclose everything ... # PassSanitaire pic.twitter.com/5DEYaEUdOj
- Commuter (@LeBobophobe) November 9, 2021
This may suggest that a booster dose (a “booster”) would be necessary in people aged 65 or over, 213 days (or approximately 7 months) after the initial vaccination.
Which would be consistent with what Israel is doing, for example, where the health pass has a lifespan of six months.
In the current version of the file, the "65" has strangely been replaced by a "650".
"Anticipate possible political decision-making"
Contacted by Le Parisien, the cabinet of the Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O, replied that "for technology to follow decisions, we have to anticipate a little bit".
"This work, he has been engaged for a while and that in no way prejudges the announcements that will be made tonight," we are assured.
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Clearly, it seems that this possibility has been considered and directly tested in the code files used to make the application work, but without knowing whether it would be announced by the political power.
"Since the start of the development of applications, it has always been necessary to anticipate possible political decision-making in order to be ready in due time", insists in the entourage of Cédric O.
Currently, 3 million people aged 65 and over have received a booster dose in France.
This represents nearly 70% of those vaccinated seven months ago (and therefore eligible), and 21% of the entire population in this age group.
