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Covid-19: "Vaccinodrome" or doctor's office? Lessons from the 2009 flu

2020-12-01T00:07:46.811Z


FOCUS - These vaccination centers had already failed during the H1N1 flu.Having vaccines is good, but you still have to know who will administer them and where. Let us remember the failure of the large vaccination centers set up in 2009, at the time of the H1N1 flu. At the time, gymnasiums and party halls had been called upon for a poor result: 5.35 million French people vaccinated only (out of 65 million targeted) and a cost estimated at 1.5 billion euros ... Read al


Having vaccines is good, but you still have to know who will administer them and where.

Let us remember the failure of the large vaccination centers set up in 2009, at the time of the H1N1 flu.

At the time, gymnasiums and party halls had been called upon for a poor result: 5.35 million French people vaccinated only (out of 65 million targeted) and a cost estimated at 1.5 billion euros ...

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Of course, the current situation is quite different.

The H1N1 virus turned out to be much less virulent than expected (312 deaths "only" in France).

"The weak adherence of the population to vaccination is undoubtedly due above all to the fact that the public had the feeling that the flu was generally mild and that it was therefore unnecessary to be vaccinated",

points out a report by parliamentary inquiry published in 2010.

"Local vaccination"

In the minds of some - in particular general practitioners who had not been involved in this decision - "vaccinodromes" would however have

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Source: lefigaro

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