The National Academy of Medicine considers Tuesday May 25 essential to make the vaccine against Covid-19 compulsory for many professions and to vaccinate children and adolescents, according to it the only way to achieve "
collective immunity sufficient to control the epidemic
" .
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Already mentioned a few months ago, the issue of compulsory vaccination came up against the shortage of vaccines and uncertainties about their level of effectiveness, but "
with an effectiveness rate of 90% to 95% against the forms serious of Covid-19, the vaccines currently approved in France (...) meet the conditions which allow to resort to the vaccination obligation
", judges the institution.
"
Individual measures (barrier gestures) and collective (curfew, confinement) are incapable of controlling over time
" the Covid-19 epidemic, "
formidable, in particular socially
", argues the academy. But "
the dynamism of the campaign will come up against the obstacle of hesitant and opposed to vaccination
", two categories each estimated at 15% of the population, she continues. It will therefore be "
very difficult to obtain a vaccination coverage rate before the end of the summer which would ensure sufficient collective immunity to control the epidemic, i.e. 90% of the adult population or 80% of the total population (children included). )
”, Estimates the consultative body, which decides on the questions of public health and medical ethics.
Which essential professions are concerned first?
Judging that "
such an obligation can only be introduced gradually
", it recommends first of all making
vaccination
"
mandatory
" in a whole series of categories, starting with the essential professions (teachers, health professions, police and civil service in general, supply services for food, water, energy, cash and computer equipment).
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The academy considers that this obligation should also be applied to “
professional activities involving contact with the public
” (shops, restaurants, hotels, cultural and sports establishments), “
before all activities involving travel or gatherings
” (travel international, thermal cures, associative events), to students “
before the start of the 2021 academic year
” and to blood donors.
She adds that "
vaccination against Sars-CoV-2 in adolescents and children should be considered as soon as vaccine protocols are approved in these age groups
", despite the fact that "
Covid-19 is generally mild in young age
”, because this extension is“
necessary for the acquisition of collective immunity
”. In France, vaccines protecting against 11 diseases are compulsory in infants.