This booster dose only concerns people at risk.
- In Israel and Germany, older people are already eligible for a third dose.
- 67.5% of the population has already received a dose of vaccine in France.
Some have not received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, but the time has already come for booster doses. For the most vulnerable people, vaccinated first, from January 2021, a third dose of vaccine will be administered from mid-September. The government spokesperson announced it on Wednesday August 12, at the end of the Health Defense Council. “Appointments will open from the end of August – beginning of September, for a reminder campaign starting in mid-September“, announced Gabriel Attal. He added that the list of populations concerned will be determined by the High Authority for Health. It could be people over the age of 80.
LIVE | Minutes of the Council of Ministers of August 11, 2021 by @GabrielAttalgovernment spokesperson.https://t.co/WpgJAXMCqN
— Elysee (@Elysee) August 11, 2021
A third dose for the general population?
As early as mid-July, Emmanuel Macron had made announcements in favor of a third dose at the start of the school year. “Those vaccinated first, that is to say in January-February, will soon see their antibody levels drop, their immunity decrease“, he had explained. A few weeks later, in a video published on instagramthe Head of State confirmed these statements: “It will probably take a third dose, not for everyone right away, but in any case for the most fragile and the oldest.
The reserves of the World Health Organization
Internationally, the third dose is debated. For the World Health Organization, a moratorium is needed on this booster dose, in order to allow all countries to have access to vaccination. “We urgently need to turn things around: from a majority of vaccines going to rich countries to a majority going to poor countries“WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech on Wednesday August 4. The international organization is calling for this moratorium to last at least until the end of September, with the aim of that at least 10% of the world’s population is vaccinated.
#HealthWorkersolder people & other at-risk groups need #COVID19 vaccinate now. @WHO is calling for a moratorium on boosters until at least the end of September, to enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. #VaccineEquity pic.twitter.com/6AwkppgbJj
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) August 4, 2021
A necessity for economic recovery
Beyond the health issue, vaccination on a global scale is one of the key elements of economic recovery. The WHO, the United Nations Development Program and the University of Oxford revealed data in this direction, at the end of July. “Inequities in COVID-19 vaccines will have a lasting and profound impact on socio-economic recovery in low- and lower-middle-income countries if urgent action is not taken to increase supply of vaccines and ensuring equitable access to all countries, including dose sharing“, had jointly declared these organizations. According to their analyses, the richest countries, having had faster access to vaccines, could recover more quickly from an economic point of view, while the poorest countries would have to wait until at least 2024 to regain their level of growth. before the crisis.
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