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"Why we must institute compulsory vaccination of people over 50"

2021-11-22T20:04:35.347Z


TRIBUNE - To rule out any risk of re-containment and save the economic recovery, it is legitimate to impose compulsory vaccination on the most exposed population and to give it a broad definition, argue Laurent Alexandre, urological surgeon, and Nicolas Bouzou, economist .


Laurent Alexandre is co-founder of the Doctissimo site, president of DNAVision.

Last published work: "Enjoy youth!"

(Lattès, 2020) Nicolas Bouzou is the founder of the consulting firm Asterès.

Has notably published “Homo sanitas” (XO Éditions, 2021).

The whole of metropolitan France has crossed the alert threshold of 50 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants.

Thanks to the high vaccination rate, this does not translate into a massive increase in hospitalizations, but the fifth wave is here.

See also

Fifth wave: is France still "a good student" in Europe?

We are surrounded by viruses - there are 10 billion of them in every liter of seawater - but we know how to fight them better and better.

Researchers sequenced the Covid-19 genome seven days after the first cases, created a vaccine in ten months and developed the first antivirals in twenty months.

This is an achievement, when we know that it took several years to identify the AIDS virus and that 600 years elapsed between the great plague of 1348, which killed 40% of Europeans

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Source: lefigaro

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