THE QUESTION
.
The "
anti-vaccines
" are having a blast on social networks.
The United Kingdom, the European country most advanced in its vaccination campaign - 60% of first-time vaccines and 42% of vaccines - is also one of those with the most new infections (5871 on June 9 - data smoothed out on one week).
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Covid-19: vaccination as the only remedy
And unlike that of its neighbors who are benefiting from the recession, the situation across the Channel is deteriorating at a rate for the moment similar to that of the second wave of last September.
Now in the majority in the United Kingdom, the delta variant - one of the two appearing in India - is between 40% and 60% more transmissible than the so-called “
British
”
alpha variant
, which replaced the “
historic
”
strain
of Sars-CoV-2 early 2021.
To read also: Is the progression of the “Indian” variant in the United Kingdom worrying?
Faced with the specter of a fourth wave, Boris Johnson warned that the last stage of deconfinement scheduled for June 21 is now uncertain.
However, does this cold shower signify the failure of the vaccination policy across the Channel?
And, in mirror image, is this a warning for France when Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, who chairs the Scientific Council, fears a fourth wave in September if the delta variant also becomes the majority in France?
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