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Should we be vaccinated against Covid or not? A short guide for the undecided

2021-02-08T09:13:47.987Z


DECRYPTION - What are the risks associated with anti-Covid vaccines? And the expected benefits? Le Figaro takes stock.


The vaccination campaign has been in full swing for a month in France (depending on deliveries ...).

Most often presented as the only way to put an end to this hellish situation, they also arouse mistrust among some who question its safety or its effectiveness.

Le Figaro

offers here factual elements that can help to form an informed opinion, far from the heated debates.

Vaccines, like any medicine, must be judged on two things: the benefits they confer on the one hand, and the risks they pose on the other hand, that is to say the possible undesirable effects that may arise. 'they can provoke.

In the case of Covid-19 vaccines, this balance depends on the age and state of health of each individual, since the risk of being hospitalized or of dying is all the greater the older one is. and / or carriers of comorbidities (diabetes, heart failure, obesity, etc.).

From the age of 50, the risk of developing a serious form and dying increases

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Source: lefigaro

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