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Only a small minority of caregivers have been vaccinated in hospital

2021-03-01T16:37:20.320Z


Even if Public Health France is still not able to give precise figures for health establishments, one thing is certain for the infectious disease specialist Gilles Pialoux: the number of vaccinations is "very insufficient".


Where exactly is the vaccination of caregivers?

Friday, Public Health France was not able to give precise figures, ensuring that an investigation was underway.

In nursing homes, just over a third of health professionals are vaccinated (37%), the agency said before acknowledging:

“We can do better, it is not at all satisfactory

.

"

Another example is instructive: only 34% of doctors of Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) and

" between 16 and 17% of other staff (paramedical, technical, administrative, etc.) "

have received at least one dose to date.

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Do many caregivers refuse to be vaccinated?

"

It is very insufficient, it is really necessary to rectify the shooting by the pedagogy",

underlines Gilles Pialoux, head of the service of the infectious and tropical diseases of the Tenon hospital, in Paris.

It is neither a problem of shortage nor of logistics.

France currently has more than two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that have not been injected and hospitals supplied to vaccinate

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Source: lefigaro

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