From Tuesday, people at risk of a serious form of influenza (women over 65, pregnant women, people with severe obesity or concomitant diseases such as diabetes, etc.) are invited, as every year, to be vaccinated with a doctor, nurse, pharmacist. or a midwife, upon presentation of a voucher to be sent to them by the medical insurance.
Although the WHO recommends 75% vaccination coverage among vulnerable people, influenza vaccination in France has been close to 50% for ten years, a level. “Very Unsatisfactory” writes epidemiologist Sybil Bernard-Stöcklin in Tuesday’s “Public Health France Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin”. In addition to this chronic frustration, we now have to deal with a covid vaccine recall campaign that is being run in parallel and which is generally targeting the same audiences (over 60 or co-morbidities). To maximize the chances that the people concerned will get two protections…
Source: Le Figaro
